and relatives of the youth to campaign for their release.
The accused were taken to the notorious Castlereagh Interrogation Centre where confessions were forced out of them following between two days and a week's "interrogation". They were forced to endure physical and psychological torture in "interviews" lasting up to 12 hours. One of the youths had urine thrown in his eyes by an RUC officer and is still suffering from restricted vision. A number of others were told that their families' details would be passed on to loyalist paramilitaries if they did not sign confessions.
At the time of writing, two of the seven have recently been released, James Morgan was sentenced to 14 years in March '93, for allegedly acting as a lookout for the IRA, with a further 6 years to run concurrently for alleged IRA membership, with the other four accused still in Crumlin Road jail on remand without having been convicted of anything.
At the time of the arGet Active VOTI can be contacted at 27 Ballymurphy Road, Belfast, BT12 HUNGER STRIKE hroughout the history of English rule in Ireland, the English have consistently tried to use religion to divide the Irish population, with English aristocrats establishing the Orange Order at the end of the seventeenth century. The uprisings at the beginning of this century meant that the British state could no longer maintain colonial rule throughout the whole of Ireland, so in 1921 partition was proposed through which sectarian privilege would be institutionalised. The border was drawn dividing the nine county province of Ulster so that Protestants would maintain a majority, as they constituted a majority in four of the six counties that now constitute the northern statelet. Recently the British have tried to portray the conflict in Ireland as one of backward "warring factions" in which the British have played a neutral or even positive "peace-keeping" role. Unfortunately, this view has also been echoed by sections of the "left" in Britain.
Though Protestants undoubtedly benefit in the short term through employment, housing and so on, these privileges are extremely minor, and any radical change can only come about through an end to British rule and a united, socialist Ireland.
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