'arachute regiment removed from the area. Barricades have been built patrol carrying out the raid had given assistance to Frank Moyna bu Street. During the raid Francis Moyna suffered a fatal heart attack. His inquiry. They have no reason to believe that the death of Frank Moyna ine past tew weeks organising a campaign British Army have been 'keeping the peace' in the Six Counties Residents in the Catholic Clonard area of Belfast have been busy during Baer me notonous the Northern Ireland Secretary, Roy Mason. The three residents who dic not sign were elderly women living on their own who expressed the fea Para signing the petition might lead to their homes being visited by the Such fears are easy to understand for the Clonard area has received special attention from the Parachute regiment since it arrived in Belfast two monins ago ana indeed on ine occasion or every previous visit by this crack outfit of the British Army. The present campaign was sparked off by an incident which well illustrates how the Paras and the rest of the in the afternoon of Tuesday 25 January, a patrol of the 2nd Battalion, and a priest for her dying husband.
a murdering bastara anyway the 'security forces'.
inquiry. Five years after Bloody dragged away from the window as she cried out for medical. assistanc One of the women described how a priest was summoned from nearb Clonard monastery and arrived to find a soldier barring the door. 'Fathe Burns arrived and they weren't going to let him through. I jumped the para and I grabbed him and I distracted his attention. The hall door goi open and Father Burns was able to squeeze in. A soldier said he would arrest me for assault and I said "You do whatever the f... you like. You're Following Mr Moyna dopth tut acordang to the hospit tre cardiac ambulance at 4.20pm but according to the hospital log request was not received until 4.42pm. The Army also claimed that th according to Mrs Moyna the only response her husband received fron Mrs Moyna, her family and neighbours nave already given their verdic actions: They killed him!" They are unlikely to be swayec by the police inquiry which has been ordered. The almost total absence of prosecutions and convictions of British soldiers for what the Northern Ireland Office calls 'errant" behaviour stands as a rare tribute to the skill and competence of the RUC in covering over the crimes of their allies in Nor are the people of Clonard impressed by the demand by Social Democratic and Labour Party whitewashing given to the Paras' actions that day by just such an госкетІло weers aco.
Sundav they have not forgotten the In the modern history of Ireland only the Black have evoked more revulsion. Many people in the Six Counties would sed the Paras as trying to outdo the barbarity of these forces. No wond they often describe the Paras as 'sick' and 'psychopaths". In the Clonan area the locals complain of one para whom they call "Mad John". They describe him as a big man, six foot three at least, claiming that he beats them up, stomps on them, abuses their children, hits them with his rifle Mad John' is a member of the Paras 2nd Battalion and is based a Springfield Road Police/Army barracks cases of brutal assault which have taken place in this statior have been documented and responsibility laid at the doo chute Regiment. Injuries have included fractured skulls and broken nos However, these activities are not the work of unbalanced individuais bu part of the administrative Government in the North of Ireland In the wake of bombings in Britain and amidst an witeh nunt etirrec uo ov ine government ano ue media wose cvenis d all too easily forgotten. But they are the story of everyday lite in the Su Counties and while this remains the case then Republicans will probably freedom to Treland but wille the BiBo continue to take action condone the armed occupation of the Six Counties by then they have no right to condemn the violence of the Clonard area of Belfast the working class people are raising the deman "British Army Out Now!", It is the same demand which should be on the lips of every British socialist and worker.
and Tans and the SAS As this column reported twc policy of "law and order' followed by the Britist atmosphere of Bombs in Britain will not bring Fi troop
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