at point-blank range. tions as 'legitimate.
townhamilton. TEN YEAR OLD Stephen Geddes lived in the Catholic Divis Flats in the Falls Road, Belfast. Last Saturday Stephen died in hospital - killed by a plastic bullet fired by British soldiers At the same time the campaign to intimidate Catholic families into leaving their homes continues to spread under the benevolent gaze of the Army. Three families in the Lisburn area in County Antrim had shots and petrol bombs fired into their houses last week. Every day the Irish News carries a series of appeals from Catholics who find themselves isolated in Loyalist areas asking for acconmodation in anti-Unionist areas.
The Ulster Volunteer Force - the Protestant terrorist organisation given legal recognition by the Labour Government last year - warned last week that for each Republican-inspired violent incident' it would take seven actions in retaliation. In its statement the UVF also named 14 organisations, ranging from both wings of the IRA to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, as 'enemies of Ulster' against whom they regarded all ac The same day, two Catholics returning from a Gaelic football match in Dublin were murdered near the border at NewThe Protestant Action Force, a satellite organisation of the UVF, claimed responsibility for the killings.
The two were killed after being stopped at a road block manned by personnel in British Army uniform. Demands by anti-Unionists for ballistic tests to be carried out on all Ulster Defence Regiment weapons in the area were rejected v. 182 Pentonville Road, London N. I. (01-837 9987) had been infiltrated by Loyalist extremists attached to the RUC, UDR and several full-time army Republicans."
an RUC patrol passed through the same roadblock.
when they returned to their base.
forces. by the authorities, who dismissed suggestions that the UDR Nevertheless, abundant evidence exists that all the Loyalist para-military associations have a large number of members in both the UDR and the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Only a fortnight ago a former Ulster Defence Association captain in Belfast caused a mild sensation when he revealed that he had been asked to recruit UDA members to the RUC reserve.
The UVF have often boasted of their co-operation with the security forces, and last weekend a story in the Sunday News revealed that many UDR members who have access to intelligence information and carry legal weapons are also members of the UVF. It continued: "Some of them are regiments. They are not only active members of the UVF, but they also feed off vital information on security and The events surrounding the murder of the football fans reveals the extent of this collusion. Shortly before the murders All secur ity personnel in any area are attached to the same barracks, so the RUC would have known instantly that the roadblock was not official. Yet they claim that they discovered this only Why did the RUC ignore this roadblock? Anti-Unionists in the North of Ireland are insisting that the answer is obvious the RUC recognised the terrorists as members of the security