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Human rottweilers on the loose

Socialist Outlook no. 22, May 30 1992 · 434 words

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John McAnulty writes from Belfast FOR MOST nationalist workers in the North, the only mystery about the '3 Para' terror campaign is that it has been reported in the press and on TV.

In an interview, Bernadette McAliskey gave the solution: Where o000s CO their harassment to nationalist areas, the Paras racism pre vents them from distinguishing between any breed of 'paddy'.

Victims

The result is that their victims have included supporters of the collaborationist SDLP and the pro-British loyalists.

The area is a killing field where the British army have exercised their 'shoot to kill policy to the full. A series of ambushes which have left no survivors have shown that the British have a far greater capacity for 'terrorism' than the RA. Now the terror has moved on to attempt to break the will of the civilian population.

The membership of the Paras have embarked on a campaign of brutality that has turned the individual soldier into a human rottweiler.

Sealed off

Recent incidents have included the sealing off of Coalisland, rampaging through the town's bars.

After a fight between youths and troops, where the troops' guns were taken, moved in in a Rambo-like rampage. Shooting from hip. they mowed down four civil lans.

All this has left the British in some difficulty. The old war cabinet of Peter Brooke as well as Michael Mates have shown that they oppose any cosmetic solution; the fact that they have supported the Paras shows few activists have the stomach for it. what sort of solution they have in mind.

The SDLP in Dublin has called for the Paras to be kept out of Coalisland, a nonsensi cal demand given that the Paras differ only in degree from other troops. Tradeunion leaders who regularly run around opposing IRA actions had nothing to say.

When Mates offered his sup port, he was aware that a numshooting dead teenage joyriders.

Posters

For weeks afterwards, the oldiers' post has a poster out ide with a picture of the bodies and the slogan 'Vaux- made by robots, *hese mad dogs should be withdrawn from Ireland and disbanded. The rest of the British forces should follow in their wake. We have had two decades of this peacekeeping Enough is enough.

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