Tuesday, May 21, 2002

IRSM Easter Commemoration 2002 From The Starry Plough Apr. 2002 The Irish Republican Socialist Movement held it's annual commemoration on Sunday 31st March in Belfast to mark the 86th anniversary of the Easter Rising. The march, headed by an IRSM colour party, proceeded from Costello House to the Republican Socialist Plot in Milltown Cemetery. Over five hundred people attended this year's event making it one of the biggest commemorations of the day throughout Ireland. John Murtagh of the IRSP's Ard Comhairle delivered the main oration Comments: 7:35:02 AM

Deprived of Ignorance as an Excuse Anthony McIntyre 30/04/2002 Index on Censorship honoured Anna Politkovskaya on March the 21st with an award for the most courageous defence of freedom of expression. Already an award-winning Russian journalist - having received the 2000 Golden Pen Award from the Russian Union of Journalists - for her coverage of the war in Chechnya and described by the Guardian as Russia's 'lost moral conscience', her articles developed into a compilation which were published as a book, A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya. It was described as 'a scathing critique of Russia's goals for the war and details the horrific violations of human rights there'. Her work ignited international protests and forced her to flee Russia because of death threats from the country's military. She had also been threatened with rape after her detention by the same military in the Chechen mountains in February 2001. Seemingly, as Eddie Holt has argued, 'individuals and organisations with power do not welcome vigorous investigative journalism by a free press. Why would they?' Comments: 7:04:36 AM

Short Strand under siege BY LAURA FRIEL A man is lying in a hospital bed. Part of the patient's head is shaved and stitched and still swollen. His name is Sean Devenny, but he is more widely known as 'Paud'. Two days ago he was a fit and healthy husband and father as well as a valued and valuable member of his local community. Comments: 7:02:09 AM

RUC/PSNI brutality In the aftermath of Saturday night's loyalist bomb attacks on nationalist homes in the Short Strand area of East Belfast and the brutal PSNI attack in which a local man was seriously injured, the PSNI and British Army launched yet another offensive on Tuesday. Comments: 7:00:43 AM

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