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REASONS FOR PROTEST
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WE WISH TO HAXE IT VERY CLEAR THAT THE GROUPS IBVOLVED IN THIS PROTEST PICKET HOLD NO
PREJUDICE TOWARDS SCOTTISH PEOPLE. NEITHER IS IT OUR INTENTION TO'CAST A'Y REFLECTION
ON SCOTTISH BACPIPES, DRUMS OR RECALLA.INDEED HOST OF US ADMIRE AND APPRECLATE THIS
FORH OF CELTIC CULTURE.
IN ORDINARY· CIRCUMSTANCES MANY OF-US WOULD BE AHOIG THE AUDIENCE SUPPORTINC THIS TYPE
OP PERFORMANCE.
DN THE NORTHEAST PART OP IRELAND LEAVE SOYETHING TO BE DESIRED.WE WANT TO POINT OUT
THAT SCOTTISH REGIMENTS HAVE BEEN AMONG THE MOST ZEALOUS IN THE HARASSHENT AKD PERSECU-
TION OF THE NATIONALIST POPULACE IN THE SIX COUNTIES.OP IRELAND. THEY HAVE ENTHUSLASTI-
BY THE BRITISH GCVERNMENT. THIS IS A MATTER OF RECORD. SONE EXAMPLES OF THIS TERROR
ARE AS TOLLOWS:
o incessant nightly raids oa booes by manhandling soldiers. Doors ere batcered in
y :paxooin uoeq oauq ssuoq so spaesmoqi 'pekorrsop kiqrtitauy sy ainituing pus
can afford repzirs and nsw furniture. lesidents are ususlly aosaulted.
o Participrtion in the torture of suspected ratioaalist syapathizers, vith & viav
to obtaining inforation or confessioas.
o Mlitary vahicles driven recklessly through nstionelist districts or iato gtoups
of people, tesulting in death and infury to innocent civilians, including youmg
chiidren.
o The use of lethal plistic bullets oa Irlsh people of all sges,. even wben there is
no riot situation. At tincs, these bullete are doctored vith razor bledas and nails
to deliberately kill, iajure or nain. ?lastic bullats are not used in Eogland ot
otber countries of Burope. They are us&d oaly oo Irish ptople. The European Parlia-
ment voted to ban thair use anyuhere in Europe, stating they are a "nurderous weapon."
Boglend has ignored chis censure.
o Executions of human-righcs activiats and republican syepethizers by the Spacial Air
Sorvices Regicent (S.A.s.), vhich is officered largcly by- Scots.
0 Tha nurder on Sept. 13. 197s. o! Leo Norney. age 17, by & meaber of the Black Hatch
Regiment vho took this immocent san frou a taxi and murdered hin in City Ceaetary.
The murder of Mzjella O'Hare. sge 12. by a nember of a Scottish reginent. The
nurder of Brian Steuart. age l3, by a mcaber of tha King's Oum Scottish Bordtters
vho fired a plastic bullet deliberately iato .the boy's face, at cluse range. These
ara just a feu of docunented turdera by Scottish soldiers.
O The aurders of cver Bo0 innocent people by the Britich Aray and legal Loyalist
paramilicary-forces. 72 percent of the people killed in the north of Ireland from
1972 to l979 were kiiled by the Britich Aray and legal Loyalist terrorist orztniza-
tions operating vith peraission of the London Parliament.
o England's record of hunan rights Violations:
- Convicted of torturiag Iriah detaipees by tbe Buropean Comniaaioa on
Hunan Rights (l976).
Coavicted of inflicting inhuaan and degrading traatrrat (corture) on
Irish prisoners by the European Court of Hurzan Rightu (l978).
" Indicted tvice by Aanesty Interriational for the torture of prisoners
(1972 6 1978).
-- Severely criticized by the European Colission oa Husan Rights for the
handling of the political-priaoner_protest, vith regard' to lack of podical
attention, lsck of exarcise. parienent cellular confinazent, linlted diet.
and the failure to resolve such a serious deadlock"(i98l).
paftod say xoi cesu fugorqoand noxy aeioaos sonuss pozrun oua kq pauurg -n
in Ireland because of buaa rights tiolztions, incirdins cho syatematic
torture of prisoners. (The ben is presently ia eftact).
TUI LHTERNATIONAL LLAGUE POR BUHAN RICHTS, IE BRITISH .HATICKAL COUNCn YOR CIYLL LIUNATIBS.
THZ JITISH HOWARD PENAL LEAGUL, THE DTERKATIOHAL 'COMMISSIOX O1 JURISTS IN CENEVA AID
OTHER PRESTICIOUS ORGANIZATIONS HAVE ALSO CRITICIZED TRE BRITISE COVERNMENT FOR RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS IX IRELAND. A SOUTH AFRICAK PURLICATION STATED THAT THE LAWS IK MORTHERH
IMELAND ARE MUCH WIDER THAN THOSE OF SOUTH AIRICA'S. SOUTH ATRICA IS OPTEN CRITICIZLD
FOR HUMAN XICHTS VIOLATIONS.SCOTTISH RECTHENTS ARE A PART OF A SYSTEY THAT PERPETUATES
ACAINST IRISH PEOPLF AND SERVE TO TUEL THE COUHTER VIOLENCE IN TRELAND.TEESI AE THE
BRASONS HHY WI ARF
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WE WISH TO HAXE IT VERY CLEAR THAT THE GROUPS IBVOLVED IN THIS PROTEST PICKET HOLD NO
PREJUDICE TOWARDS SCOTTISH PEOPLE. NEITHER IS IT OUR INTENTION TO'CAST A'Y REFLECTION
ON SCOTTISH BACPIPES, DRUMS OR RECALLA.INDEED HOST OF US ADMIRE AND APPRECLATE THIS
FORH OF CELTIC CULTURE.
IN ORDINARY· CIRCUMSTANCES MANY OF-US WOULD BE AHOIG THE AUDIENCE SUPPORTINC THIS TYPE
OP PERFORMANCE.
DN THE NORTHEAST PART OP IRELAND LEAVE SOYETHING TO BE DESIRED.WE WANT TO POINT OUT
THAT SCOTTISH REGIMENTS HAVE BEEN AMONG THE MOST ZEALOUS IN THE HARASSHENT AKD PERSECU-
TION OF THE NATIONALIST POPULACE IN THE SIX COUNTIES.OP IRELAND. THEY HAVE ENTHUSLASTI-
BY THE BRITISH GCVERNMENT. THIS IS A MATTER OF RECORD. SONE EXAMPLES OF THIS TERROR
ARE AS TOLLOWS:
o incessant nightly raids oa booes by manhandling soldiers. Doors ere batcered in
y :paxooin uoeq oauq ssuoq so spaesmoqi 'pekorrsop kiqrtitauy sy ainituing pus
can afford repzirs and nsw furniture. lesidents are ususlly aosaulted.
o Participrtion in the torture of suspected ratioaalist syapathizers, vith & viav
to obtaining inforation or confessioas.
o Mlitary vahicles driven recklessly through nstionelist districts or iato gtoups
of people, tesulting in death and infury to innocent civilians, including youmg
chiidren.
o The use of lethal plistic bullets oa Irlsh people of all sges,. even wben there is
no riot situation. At tincs, these bullete are doctored vith razor bledas and nails
to deliberately kill, iajure or nain. ?lastic bullats are not used in Eogland ot
otber countries of Burope. They are us&d oaly oo Irish ptople. The European Parlia-
ment voted to ban thair use anyuhere in Europe, stating they are a "nurderous weapon."
Boglend has ignored chis censure.
o Executions of human-righcs activiats and republican syepethizers by the Spacial Air
Sorvices Regicent (S.A.s.), vhich is officered largcly by- Scots.
0 Tha nurder on Sept. 13. 197s. o! Leo Norney. age 17, by & meaber of the Black Hatch
Regiment vho took this immocent san frou a taxi and murdered hin in City Ceaetary.
The murder of Mzjella O'Hare. sge 12. by a nember of a Scottish reginent. The
nurder of Brian Steuart. age l3, by a mcaber of tha King's Oum Scottish Bordtters
vho fired a plastic bullet deliberately iato .the boy's face, at cluse range. These
ara just a feu of docunented turdera by Scottish soldiers.
O The aurders of cver Bo0 innocent people by the Britich Aray and legal Loyalist
paramilicary-forces. 72 percent of the people killed in the north of Ireland from
1972 to l979 were kiiled by the Britich Aray and legal Loyalist terrorist orztniza-
tions operating vith peraission of the London Parliament.
o England's record of hunan rights Violations:
- Convicted of torturiag Iriah detaipees by tbe Buropean Comniaaioa on
Hunan Rights (l976).
Coavicted of inflicting inhuaan and degrading traatrrat (corture) on
Irish prisoners by the European Court of Hurzan Rightu (l978).
" Indicted tvice by Aanesty Interriational for the torture of prisoners
(1972 6 1978).
-- Severely criticized by the European Colission oa Husan Rights for the
handling of the political-priaoner_protest, vith regard' to lack of podical
attention, lsck of exarcise. parienent cellular confinazent, linlted diet.
and the failure to resolve such a serious deadlock"(i98l).
paftod say xoi cesu fugorqoand noxy aeioaos sonuss pozrun oua kq pauurg -n
in Ireland because of buaa rights tiolztions, incirdins cho syatematic
torture of prisoners. (The ben is presently ia eftact).
TUI LHTERNATIONAL LLAGUE POR BUHAN RICHTS, IE BRITISH .HATICKAL COUNCn YOR CIYLL LIUNATIBS.
THZ JITISH HOWARD PENAL LEAGUL, THE DTERKATIOHAL 'COMMISSIOX O1 JURISTS IN CENEVA AID
OTHER PRESTICIOUS ORGANIZATIONS HAVE ALSO CRITICIZED TRE BRITISE COVERNMENT FOR RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS IX IRELAND. A SOUTH AFRICAK PURLICATION STATED THAT THE LAWS IK MORTHERH
IMELAND ARE MUCH WIDER THAN THOSE OF SOUTH AIRICA'S. SOUTH ATRICA IS OPTEN CRITICIZLD
FOR HUMAN XICHTS VIOLATIONS.SCOTTISH RECTHENTS ARE A PART OF A SYSTEY THAT PERPETUATES
ACAINST IRISH PEOPLF AND SERVE TO TUEL THE COUHTER VIOLENCE IN TRELAND.TEESI AE THE
BRASONS HHY WI ARF
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