By John Burchall A radical magazine commemorating the 17th anniversary of Erskine Durrant `Buck' Burrows' hanging in 1977, is circulating in the community The Royal Gazette can reveal.

An anonymous group, the Nationalist Youth Alliance, are the publishers of the five-paged magazine.

Police spokesman, Pc. Gary Venning, confirmed that Police were aware the publication existed.

But he declined to comment any further.

On the magazine's cover is a photocopied picture of Burrows with his birth dates and a banner headline depicting the words:"Murdered!'' The authors declare Burrows a martyr and "truly revolutionary individual...a brother who was willing to sacrifice his life in an effort to end a three-century legacy of oppression of the Afrikan Bermudian population by the Island's white minority''.

Moreover, the magazine states: "We understand the motivation behind the murder and offer no condemnation whatsoever against our fallen comrade.

"We recognise that brother `Buck' was no different from the Mau Mau in Kenya, the Azanian People's Liberation Army in Azania (South Africa), the Maroons in Jamaica and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in Palestine, all of whom took lives in the fight against tyranny and oppression.'' Last week charges were dropped against the publishers for two earlier editions of the magazine.

The first urged blacks in Bermuda to mount a brutal freedom fight against whites, while the second blasted Government for allegedly neglecting blacks and described the Queen as "a syphilitic whore''.

No one was arrested in connection with the matter but it was thought some students at Bermuda College, where the magazine was circulated, were involved.

Meanwhile the latest edition, which is thought to have been circulating since December, praises Burrows as "a grass roots revolutionary who saw British imperialism, economic exploitation and other forms of savagery orchestrated by the state, embodied in the persons he killed''.

However, the writers criticise Burrows for not realising that his victims -- Police Commissioner George Duckett, Governor Sir Richard Sharples, his aide-de-camp Capt. Hugh Sayers, Victor Rego and Mark Doe -- "were nothing more than expendable and interchangeable parts in the well oiled machine of institutionalised white supremacy''.

Among other things, the magazine begins with a copy of Burrows' final confession letter before he was executed. In it he recounts the events leading up to the Sir Richard Sharples and his aide-de-camp's death.

Former Attorney General, Mr. Walter Maddocks decided not to pursue the matter which was under Police investigation just over a year ago.

A source told The Royal Gazette the laws on sedition, like obscenity, were very grey areas and therefore it was difficult to build a case.

Last week a second anonymous person or group circulated a statement calling for Bermuda to put "an immediate end to the political genocide'' of black men.

In the three-page statement -- mysteriously distributed to several Hamilton businesses -- the sender warned that if blacks continue to be treated with disrespect, "the perpetrators will be met with maximum resistance and retaliation''.

The statement, contained milder language than that found in any of the Nationalist's issues and was less professional in appearance.