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Scanned Image $li||lIlll’$ anarchist fortnightly vc:,.37 110.12 26 1976 w'.:'sLw PEZTCE IIVEII. lillilllll ! THE NUMBER of people killed in the Johannesburg township of Soweto has risen to 109 with 1,100 injured. figures are expected to be revised lat- REPORT COMPILED BY D.O M. and K. O‘ M. - er when a substantially higher toll will be shown. I MAIN T RIA L ACCOUNT September 23 gardai (police) raided the homes of known anarchists through- This massacre of protesting Black out Dublin. According to anarchist Africans reminds us of a previous in- ON WEDNESDAY June 9th, two sources in Ireland about 200 raids were anarchists, Noel and Marie Murray, cident in the white man's rule of South- carried out - directed not only at anar- were sentenced to hang on July 9th, by ern Africa. At that time, in March chists but also against the relatives a three-man tribunal in Dublin, for al 1960, it was a Sharpeville, a township and friends of the previously imprison- legedly killing a policeman in Septemb near Vereeniging. The Africans were ed anarchists - in what appears to be er 1975 when escaping after a bank protesting over the carrying of passes an attempt to use the ‘guilt by associa- raid. Sentence of 12 years on a charge and had gathered at the police station tion‘ methods also employed by the Bri- of armed robbery, 6 years each on sep- to surrender themselves for not car- arate charges of possessing firearms tish police in the Angry Brigade trials. rying these identity cards which they and 5 years for having explosives were Considerable brutality was used during were required to do by law. The also imposed, giving a total of 35 years i the subsequent interrogations, one de- demonstratbrs were fired upon and each. Thethird accused, Ronan Stenson, tainee spending two weeks in hospital 56 men, women and children killed is being granted a separate trial on recovering. On October 9, Noel and and 162 injured. similar charges because of his poor Marie Murray and Ronan Stenson (who physical and mental health. Stens on, had been picked up earlier and released)" The Soweto demonstrations centre was described by his psychiatrist as were arrested and beaten into signing around a government ruling that Afri- being "tense, extremely agitated, and ‘confessions’ which were subsequently can schoolchildren i.n ‘white' urban showing crisis upset of panic proporti- accepted as valid evidence. Mr. Just- areas must be taught in both English ons". ice Pringle, who presided at the court, and Afrikaans. In other areas, such claimed, however, that no factual bas- as the so-called Bantu Homelands, Noel Murray went on the run in 1974 is existed for any of the allegations a- everyone has a choice. As an when he jumped bail during a trial con- gainst the Gardai, that the statements example of this, all "homelands" gov- had been made freely and voluntarily cerning arms and explosives offences, ernments have stopped the teaching of for whicir. three anarchists were'i.mpri- and that both accused had been properly Afrikaans in favour of English. soned, and 3-Iarie Murray was given a treated by the Gardai. However when two-year suspended sentence. On llth the Murrays were brought to trial the This differential illustrates the need September 1975, an off-duty garda Irish straight press complied with a needs of what can only be described as (policeman) Michael Reynolds, died request from Justice Pringle not to re- a racial slave state. Where the rul- after being shot through the head in a port on the evidence relating to the ad- ing ‘whites‘ need the Africans they missability of certain statements of public park in the Raheny area of Dub- 'i have to have a knowledge of the two lin while chasing bank raiders. On the accused until the court had decided languages used by the ‘whites’ in the on their admissability. Important evi- towns and cities. Afrikaans is indeed dence pertaining to the fact that the the language of the white ruling class. JMMLTJ ‘confessions‘ had been made under dur- It is the masters‘ language. But even I_ ess did not, therefore, find its way in- slaves need some education and must Bland! Embassy to the daily papers. converse with their masters. And so ON TI-IE night of Thursday, 17 June the although the number of Black children portals of the South African Embassy The sentences were the culmination facing onto Trafalgar Square in London at school has risen to nearly four I of a 7-weeks‘ trial during which the millions, three quarters of these re- were covered in blood-red paint. The Murrays vehemently protested the un- ' ' " r\ -I _ ".'::1 O _ paint also covered the pavement in front L just nature of the proceedings and de- of the Embassy. i manded a fair trial. Because of this they were removed to the cells, where The next morning tarpaulins covered the proceedings were relayed by micro"-_ the portals in a vain attempt to cover up phone to them. Earlier, speaking in ...,1______H_ (/1OC‘. -iI ICA South Africa's shame. There had obvi- .- .- .l. _ = H I ously been an attempt to wash off the _ --0- 0. }3@ Krugersdorp paint soon after the incident but this had V 4"W"I\.-, V resulted in the paint running into the 0:0}:0.0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:o:0 0 0:0:0 0 0:0:0:0.0:0:0‘0:0:0‘0:0:0‘0:0:0’0:0:0:0 {(0.0 0:010 0:010) 0 Q-In-q_= 1 \. \ --5 cracks of the pavement. \ PICKET'0 PICKET'0 Anyone passing in front of the Embas- sy can now see large patcte s of very IN SUPPORT OF clean stone with a pink tinge a.nd red paint in the cracks in the pavement . MARIE MURRAY and NOEL MURRAY Let us hope that the displeasure we I take at the presence of murderers‘ am- "'1-1: '- at '. -..Q‘ ( I ‘\ bassadors will become manifest to such THE BANK OF IRELAND L an extent that they will be forced to l 106 Kilburn High Road, London N". W. 6 leave and return to their, by now, tenu- ous home groun d. SATURDAY, JUNE 26th (starts 10am) until JULY 9th. Let us also hope that the people of I H0-.'\"uun. H0~1'_5E__.__ South Africa will achieve real libera- , A LL -groups, comrades and sympathi- tibn from oppression soon. sers are urged to attend and support. Francesco. I 0V0‘0.0.0O V 9 0V0,0,0v 0 03.0.0Y 1:0 0 0,0,00% 0 0,0,0vv00v00.0;-,0 0 0.30vr 0‘0.0,0vv 0‘0‘01-"Orv0.0.0 0,0,0vf 0.0‘0it 0V10,0 0 0‘0‘I 0 "5CHOOL' S OVER, TEACHER. " I s SCHOOL'S oven I TEACHER 0' - 0 M ‘- . -.. -I I "-;;t.f?:--31:1. *.‘.l I ceive about four years education in the schools. If further evidence of dis- his own defence, Noel Murray had MARIE: Are you afraid of what we crimination is needed, the government challenged the prosecution‘s- evidence, have to say‘? spends £ 300 a year on every white based as it was on statements not given schoolkid, and only £18 on Africans. voluntarily. Noel said that if the court Pringle then ordered the accused to rejected part of these statements then be forcibly removed from the court. Even before these demonstrations it must cast doubts on all of the state- After an adjournment of 20 minutes members of African school boards ments. None of the other evidence put she was brought back for sentencing had been sacked by the authorities for forward by the prosecution, none of the and as Mr. Pringle began to pronounce the death sentence on her, she inter- refusing to teach Afrikaans in their items found in his home or anywhere schools. But the Black secondary else, could be placed in their possess- 1'\1Pted Saying "This Law and Order Government has timed this for the schoo1_children realise that they are ion at the time of the crimes. The elections. " Once again she was re- slaves. They still have to carry the only thing which might make this evid- hated passes wherever they go. Eve ence valid was the statements. He moved. Noel refused to reenter the court to hear sentence, saying "I‘m Every aspect of their lives will be continued that statements of admission were not generally regarded as suffici- not going up there, I don't consider it controlled, they know this from how a court. " their parents have been bonded to an ent evidence in any murder trial. employer, restricted in movement Marie Murray pointed out that the pro- Justice Pringle refused the Murrays and even separated one from the secution‘s case involved admitted spec- . ulation on what were the thoughts of the right to appeal against the convict- other. They have seen the arrest and ions and sentences, but said they and imprisonment of people for not the late Garda Reynolds as he passed could appeal against his refusal to the carrying - even just forgetting to the bank and started the chaser. "I Court of Criminal Appeal. carry - this card. think when the prosecution feels it nec- essary to enter the realms of specula- At 1 6 they will have to carry this tion it shows basic weaknesses i.n their On 14th June Noel lodged his appeal, card.
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