GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The South American country of Guyana has ordered an in-depth investigation into the 1980 assassination of Walter Rodney, a local historian and black activist who was involved in the Black Power movement in the U.S. and the Caribbean.

The Working People’s Alliance, a Guyanese political party that Rodney founded in the 1970s, said Wednesday that it hopes a commission composed of three Caribbean attorneys will identify all those responsible for Rodney’s death.