Arthur Robinson, the former president and prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, has died at the age of 87.
Mr Robinson is credited with helping to establish the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
As prime minister (1986-1991), he was held hostage and shot in the leg during a failed coup attempt in 1990.
He was also beaten by his Islamist captors for ordering the security forces to attack them “with full force” instead of backing down.
Twenty-four people died during the coup attempt — carried out by a little-known radical Muslim group, the Jamaat Al Muslimeen — the majority of them during looting that erupted in the Trinidadian capital, Port-of-Spain.
Arthur Robinson is widely recognised as coming from a generation of West Indian intellectuals who were to change the course of the region’s history, BBC informs.
