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In memory oimfamine dead: what the latest l&roe Otlice - ; Scottish challenge to the How Ireland'^ population was figures reveal anbut t ted Kingdom reduced to J Ar Founded 1939 No 572 Connolly Association: campaigning for a united and independent Ireland December 1991 Price40p : -J ern Ireland regime's human He had "enormous reser- committee further ex- Kingdom authorities to try hands of the authorities for by Martin Morlarty rights record. vations with regard to the pressed "grave concern" to institutionalise the sys- seven days, with every- THE United Nations In Its wry first considera- policing and interrogation about the British tem now in effect, let alone thing apparently geared to Committee Against Torture tion of torture allegations systems in effect in North- government's reluctance to rationalise it." extracting a confession or last month entered its ageinst Britain, rapporteur ern Ireland," he told the video-tape Interrogations Other committee mem- statements involving third "enormous reservations" Peter Thomas Burns, from committee at the end of its and the denial to suspects bers echoed Mr Burns. parties, she said. concerning policing and Canada, said that Britain day-long deliberations in arrested under the Preven- French member Christine The landmark committee interrogation In the Six met virtually every obliga- Geneva. tion of Terrorism Act of ac- Chanet was "not con- hearlnga followed in the Counties. tion under the Convention "There are, in effect, two cess to a solicitor. vinced" of the application of wake of the publication in To the enormous interna- Against Torture and Other generations of police of- "These are rather basic the Convention Against Tor- October of the Helsinki tional embarrassment of the Cruel, Inhuman or Degrad- ficers in the Royal Ulster protections In every other ture In the Six Counties. It Watch report Human rights British government, the UN ing Treatment or Punish- Constabulary who have ex- branch of the civilised was possible to imagine In Northern Inland, based committee was less than en- ment, except in the Six perienced only the emer- world," Mr Burns said. "It is that anything could happen on the human rights thusiastic about the North- Counties. gency system," he said. extraordinary for the United to someone totally in the • Turn to page 3 r by Martin Morlarty in the House of Com- mons, just not OYALIST articulated. But Paisley's paramilitaries deputy Peter Robinson have given was nearer the truth another turn of when he told a Belfast the screw to the press conference last crisis in the Six Counties. month: "Who will deny They have opened a sec- — with all the evidence tarian offensive in a bid available — that our to set the future political partner in the union has agenda. embraced a course that The threat to their can only lead to the fonner masters in Lon- destruction of the union don is manifestly clear: between Great Britain contemplate any and Northern Ireland?" weakening of the union, Robinson is overstat- and we will unleash a ing the case: but there can bloodbath against the be little doubt the nationalist community. majority of loyalists see The certainly recog- things his way. nise they no longer have And now the scale of the unqualified political the killings in the last support of the majority of dght weeks proves their the British establishment. bloodbath threats are no James Molyneaux told idle boast: two Catholic the UUP conference in taxi drivers have been October that support for murdered by the still- • Turn to back pane •MEN OF VIOLENCE: loyalist paramilitaries am trying to art Aw political agenda the union was extensive NEWS ip EDITORIAL i, Thousands more lifted under PTA NEWS IN BRIEF •-I} charge in October. Nuclear warship visits Cork TERROR ACT ing how many people have tioned or made to fill out "Exclusion orders are to- The nuclear-armed I On whose been detained for up to an PTA embarkation cards at at Cobh on a fffv< tally contrary to Internation- last month to the horror of OF THE 117 people hour since 1986. Before ports of entry every year. It anti-nuclear campalgi and the city council, writes detained in Britain under this date the figures is not uncommon for this al law and the principles of natural justice," the cam- Jim Savage. the Prevention of Terrorism showed that on average questioning to be just long The ship Is equipped with long-range Tomahawk mis- paign says. "Since ex- authority? Act in the first nine months there were 50,000 such enough for an Individual to siles and short-range Harpoon weapons and carries the cluded people have no right of 1991, just as was charged detentions every year. miss a connection in their equivalent of 20 to 30 Hlroshimas In nuclear explosive to know why they have been with a criminal offence, However, recent research journey. "This could be* onboard. served with orders, hear the according to the latest shows this figure was considered harassment on USS Monterey officers countered an attempt by mem- evidence against them or Home Office figures. steadily rising, according to a very grand scale," the bers of Greenpeace, Earthwatch, CND and the Green have their case heard in In addition, 108 people the Repeal The PTA Cam- campaign says. Party to attach protest flags and banners to the ship by public, there is literally no were "examined" for over paign bulletin, and, if the Five people were served dlrectlnga hugs water cannon at their rubber dinghies. independent way of Judging HATEVER the result of the next elec- an hour during this period rate of increase had con- with new exclusion orders The citycouncll passod an emergency resolution call- the police's assessment of, tion, it seems certain that there will without being formally tinued, would now probably in the first half of 1991, not ing on the government to refuse entry to foreign war- their character." be a new Secretary of State for North- detained. All of them were be around 100,000 a year. including former extraditee, shlps unless they state unequivocally that they are not W Dessle Ellis, who was ex- • Repeal the PTA Cam- ern Ireland within the next six months. If released without charge. In addition to this there are carrying,fluelaar weapons. paign, PO Box 1340, Lon- The Tories win, Peter Brooke will be retired The government has not probably millions of people cluded after being ac- The real fear In Corkwas a fire on board, explained released the figures show- who are stopped, ques- quitted on la conspiracy don N22 4TA. hurt by his captain: few Northern secretaries Irish GMTa Carol Fox, The US navy nuclear transport survive the deaths of their own initiatives. If ship Inchon, which docked at Cobh In September and Labour wins, Kevin McNamara will be in- October 1989, caught fire a year later in port, she stalled in the Northern Ireland Office as the pointed out. first secretary of state since partition Haughey Labour dodges deals probe pledged to Irish reunification. THE Labour Party has refused to pubdely rule out a deal A new incumbent will undoubtedly want escapes with the Ulster Unionists In the event of a hung to make their mark on the Northern political parliament. scene. And the possibilities of a new initia- again In response to a letter from the Connolly Association, tive are further increased if Labour win. But asklngfor such an assurance, NeH KIrmock's office eeld last month: "We anticipate-that we will win an outright although the party has a serious Irish agen- DUBLIN majority at the next General Election and do not enter da, there remains a question mark over how into speculation about deals with other parties. We that agenda will begin to be rearranged by BY 55 votes to 22, Taoiseach leave that to the Liberate." the pressures of running the show. CJ Haughey defeated the If you live in a constituency with a Labour MP, or a fourth attempt of hisFiaraia f i marginal which Labour hae a good chance of winning, There are certainly signs that they're al- Fail enemies to overthrow i write to the parliamentary candidate and aek them if ready adjusting one or two definitions. him and replace him—this theywillgo through the lobby chambers with Unionists. Some pretty reliable sources are emphasis- time with his Minister for Explain to them that Labour cannot take Its Irish votes ing the party is committed to unity — but Finance, Albert Reynolds. for granted and how-badly the party damaged Its credibility the lasttimettwaeIn government. Raise the only as a long-term aim. They intimate a Speculation about" LETHAL FORCE three months later. "a Conspiracy of silence" ICPC prefers to play a less con- All the evidence points to which protected everyone in- troversial role than its English question In your trade union branch and get the Labour government might well be prepared I It's still costing too many lives Pic: DAVID GRANVILLE Haughey and his future is^ the most long-running^ IDESPREAD pressure official acquiescence in the volved.; counterpart," according to the secretary to write to the local candidates. to settle for a great deal less in the short story in Irish politics—andI for independent in- practice. Either the govern- Other notable cases in- Committee on the Administra- If you live in Scotland or Wales, write to the term, starting with joint authority. After all, at this stage about the most; Wquiries into the killings ment needs an "unofficial^ clude: tion of Justice newsletter Just nationalists.
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