Murder of Bernard Darke

Bernard Darke, a British-born, Guyana-based Jesuit priest and photographer for the Catholic Standard, was stabbed to death on 14 July 1979 by members of the House of Israel, a religious cult that was closely tied to the People's National Congress (PNC), while he was photographing Working People's Alliance demonstrations of the PNC. Guyana's Stabroek News described the murder as "the low point of democracy in Guyana" and, for those in the media, "perhaps the most traumatic event of the [Forbes] Burnham regime."

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