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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- IRELAND TERRORIZED BY PRO-BRITISH DEATH SQUADS
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- By Ed Childs
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- Political leaders and elected officials of the Irish Republican
- party Sinn Fein are being increasingly targeted by pro-British
- death squads in Occupied Ireland (Northern Ireland). Over the
- last 20 years, 14 members have been assassinated--four since last
- summer.
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- Altogether, the Irish people have suffered 3,002 political deaths
- in this 20-year period. The attempt to wipe out their political
- leadership is a desperate act on the part of English colonialism.
-
- On Oct. 16, Sheena Campbell was assassinated by a masked
- gunslinger of the Ulster Volunteer Force in the York Hotel near
- Queens University, Belfast. Two of Sheena's friends were wounded;
- all three were law students at Queens.
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- Sheena, 29 years old and formerly a member of Sinn Fein's
- leadership, was the party's Women's Officer for Occupied Ireland.
- She was a Sinn Fein candidate for British Parliament in the last
- election and recently toured internationally, speaking out for
- Sinn Fein and Irish independence.
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- Sheena had attended law school to provide legal defense for those
- fighting for Irish independence.
-
- Pat Finucane, a prominent lawyer, was also recently murdered by
- death squads while defending suspected IRA members.
-
- Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, describing Sheena as courageous
- and articulate, said, "The killing of Sheena Campbell was part of
- the on-going campaign of murder against members of Sinn Fein
- which has seen many of our friends killed or wounded." Sheena is
- the eighth Sinn Fein leader killed since the 1982 elections; five
- elected officials have been wounded, including Adams himself.
-
- This summer the pro-British death squads targeted relatives of
- Irish Republicans. Tess and Charlie Fox, parents of Paddy Fox--a
- political prisoner from County Tyrone--were killed while watching
- television. A year earlier Paddy was told by police they would go
- after his parents if they could not get him or his brother.
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- SHOT IN HOSPITAL
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- This reporter talked to former Belfast Sinn Fein City Councilor
- Sean Keenan, who was shot in the head outside Belfast City Hall
- after election ballot counting. Sean was with Gerry Adams and two
- others when British troops escorting and harassing them suddenly
- disappeared. A car pulled up seconds later and began raking their
- car with automatic gunfire.
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- As Sean was being taken to the hospital, the police threatened to
- finish him off. Friends then took him to a different hospital for
- his safety. A short time later, a death squad knocked down his
- door and shot him in the hip as he dived for cover.
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- In a revealing interview earlier this year with the U.S.-based
- information bulletin Northern Ireland Report, a UFF (another
- pro-British death squad) spokesperson admitted: "We get our
- information from the security forces. I could show you computer
- print-outs in the other room, Security Force print-outs, with
- precise intelligence." Evidence that the English military directs
- the death squads was also exposed recently on English TV Channel
- 4.
-
- The 1991 census figures showed that Occupied Ireland's
- Nationalist community will be in the majority within the
- foreseeable future. This makes it unstable and ever more costly
- to suppress for England and for countries like the U.S. that
- benefit from Ireland being occupied (Wall Street is now the
- largest investor in Ireland).
-
- Sinn Fein now holds the most seats in the Nationalist community's
- two biggest colonial city councils--Derry and Belfast. In the
- next two elections, Sinn Fein may gain the majority of seats in
- these cities. An electoral majority for a socialist Republican
- Sinn Fein party is England's nightmare. The call for England out
- of Ireland is growing, not only among the Irish but among English
- workers as well.
-
- (Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted
- if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
- St., New York, NY 10010; "workers" on PeaceNet; on Internet:
- "workers@mcimail.com".)
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