Plastic Bullets Slammed

An International Tribunal meeting in Belfast has slammed the use of plastic bullets by the British Army and the RUC as murder and terror weapons.

Evidence of the murders of Julie Livingstone and Carol Anne Kelly by the Brits was cited. Other evidence of people losing their sight and undergoing brain damage was heard. This evidence of British terrorism is being publicised around the world and will be another nail in the coffin of the so-called ‘Normalisation Policy’ of Thatcher.

US Republican Party member Peter King said the bullets were “definitely lethal” and urged that they be outlawed. Patrick McCann of the AssoCiation for Legal Justice who organised the tribunal said that interNational jurists present were “dumbfounded” when they heard witnesses testifying on the plastic bullet murders and maimings.

The Irish government and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions must now immediately demand the banning of plastic bullets and other repressive weapons. Socialists must be to the forefront in campaigning against these terror weapons. fight for Political Status.

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