colonial wars and in Ireland today.
served in Ireland.
Troops Out -in British uniform.
I was sent to the worth the fine. day after my 18th birthday. We SLUTOTEU At this time Protestant paramilitaries were at the peak of their sectarian assassination and bombing campaign.
Nevertbeless all our activity wis directed against Republicans.
1 was stationed in Tactical HQ as an orderly for a period. Anyone arrested and suspecis were brought in there for screening.
SCREAMING My room where 1 slept was right next door interrogation room and every night you'd hear people coming and getting roughed up, their heads banged against the walls screaming and everything. was more annoyed at losing my sleep than anything else at the On 10 June the United Troops Out is holding a conference on the role of the British Army in past Included in the agenda is a new film on the Army and a discussion by a number of ex-soldiers who have One such former soldier is IAN PHILLIPS. In this article — the full version of which is available in - Phillips tells of his experience in Ireland On one occasion I was told to North the were told to lean up against the wall, fingers on the wall, feet apart. I was told to keep wutch on them. One had a gunshot wound in his leg from a few days earlier and couldn't stand the up properly.
BAD PAIN all I let him sit. The corporal screimed al and threatened me and made the bloke get up. Then he look me off the job. Two hours later 1 saw that they were still stood there in really the I saw lots of blokes who had been given a real hammering.
One of the first things I saw woes barrived aere was a tElle room called "The Box", It was and a chair in it — and it was covered in blood.
Other blokes said: It's just Trom nurex woo yet a working over'. There were pictures in the Intelligence Room of blokes propped BETTES. TENTS palpSMASHED There wasn't a day went by when you didn't witness some incident of brutality, whetherit was someone getting dragged Sance sae corteor Dynas Dair or some woman biggest guy in our unit once, Just for screaming.
The worst brutality that 1 witnessed were in the Crumlin Rd. during searches we did there. When ne Republican from my unit went round to Individuals who There was one bee-line for his cell. He was pain. stripped and given a biding. You could bear the bloody 10p for postage.
between warnings lo unit.
Snipers sight. So whe Incidents of INTELLIGENCE Prison seurched had been Kay. made u For details of the conference on the Army contact UTOM at 182 Upper Street, London N1. UTOM's paper Troops Out costs 10p and is available from the Other Bookshop, 328 Upper Street, London N1, plus screams all over the prison.
Under the Blue and Yellow card system strict regulations are laid down about giving you suspect has a weapon, But while I worked in the office I wus ahle to reud the sniper file. In 1972, 17 people had been shot by snipers in our are hidden positions and using telescopic they can't give warnings und they can just the road on suspicion; you have of Intelligence photographs which they use to identify individuals. In 1972, they were hemping off people left right and centre Most soldiers today think the should Bel out of Northern Ireland. They don't see any solution at all. Only the real idiots think that something can be achieved. They see it as goleg on and on and an. At a picket held in Downing Street on Saturday members of the United Troops Out Movement protested against the attemptec closure in Batest or sinn reins hoogoncan news. no basre editorial stalf of the paper as well as its printer are currently awalling trial. The picket also protested against the death. In Castlereagh police station of Brian Magulre.
Katangan Those in tie 1900. the right-wing Moise Their political aim can thus be roduced to the secession of Karanga, now Shaba province, Zaire's richest area.
This cananation his the virtue of beiny superficial you nanse snortin, as wel as showing up the perlidy of tbe who are Deepare CO use such politically unsavoury forces to further their own The truth, as always, is more complex. leader Nathanial M'Bumba was ouc Tshombe's pendarmes. though a very young one COLONIALISTS After their defeat in 1965 the Katangan troops fled to Angola where they worked for the Portuguese colonialises against the Fiberation movements. The FNI.C. founded 1968. contatued thns cradition, for all its fine phrases about militant solidarity with the oppressed of The end of Portiguese colonialism posed the FNEC with a dileroma. Prohably for opportunist reasons it lined up with the MPLA Government The relation of the present Shaba rebels to the gendarmes is tenuous abc seems to centre whoLy the person of M' Bumba. If the press stopped to think about it, they would realise that this is at least partly because Tshombe's troops are now old men SUPPORT ENLC can be explained by the COUSCH JOCUISIT into Angola. Quite apart from any internationalist considera tions Angola has a clear and defensible interest in destabilsing Mobutu.
For all the doubts that can b raised about the FNLC, their popular support cannot questioned. probably onlya petty bourgeois But against Mobetu and bis WINCISCORLALSLIGUOSO our unconditional support,
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