Saturday, December 7, 2002

Provos to Join British Police If a measure of the Provisionals' determination to join the British police in the Six Counties was needed you need look no further than the recent comments of their Belfast Mayor Alec Maskey. [Saoirse: Provos to Join British Police (original), Provos to Join British Police... (permalink)] Comments: Google It! 8:26:03 AM

Questioning the Prison System in the North Liam O Ruairc One of the consequences of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement has been the withdrawal of what was in practice a form of "political status". Long Kesh, the symbol of incarcerated Republicanism and the 1980/1981 hunger strikes was gradually emptied, and once all the prisoners were out, closed down. This gives the impression that Republican prisoners are a thing of the past, and that the prison struggle belongs to history. With Long Kesh closed, the centre of gravity of the prison system in the North has shifted to Maghaberry. While Long Kesh and the prison struggle that had gone on there had been very visible (be it from the M1 motorway, the many marches and rallies, most people from the Nationalist community knew at least one family with a member in prison, etc), what is striking about Maghaberry is its invisibility. Who even knows where HMP Maghaberry is and how to get there? How many people in West Belfast could put a face to the name of a prisoner? And what about the protests: a "mass meeting" of six people forming a white line is hardly the expression of popular resistance. But more important: do people on the outside actually know what is going on inside the prisons? [The Blanket: Questioning the Prison System in the North] Comments: Google It! 8:17:42 AM

British attempting to cover-up killings On Tuesday 19 November, another preliminary hearing into the scheduling of four inquests surrounding the killings of four men at Clonoe, three men at Coagh, both by the SAS, and 76-year-old pensioner Roseanne Mallon at Dungannon, in collusion with loyalists, opened at Cookstown Court House. [AP/RN: British attempting to cover-up killings] Comments: Google It! 8:12:34 AM

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