Belfast marchers outwit Brits and reach Crumlin Rd. jail
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The Peoples Democracy last Sunday achieved a major propaganda coup against the British Army by successfully marching from the Falls Road, are of Belfast to Crumlin Road Jail, in protest against Internment and at the ‘murder and brutality of the British Army’. The march was the first successful attempt for many years by an anti-Unionist organisation to march through Belfast city centre to the jail, and afterward jubulant demonstrators marched to the Grand Central Army post to demand the release of one of the marchers who Fi had been arrested earlier in the demonstration. The British Army and RUC raced backwards and forwards across the city in apparent total confusion as P.D. stewards marshalled the crowd over an intricate route to the jail.
The march set off from Beechntount Avenue in the Falls Rd. area shortly after 2.00 p.m. The march destination had been kept a secret, but most of the demonstrators and the British Army assumed that it was to be Long Kesh camp. Hundreds of troops and RUC had been deployed to block the One of the grim confrontations with the Brits during one of last week’s demonstrations Army. and the march proceeded to the a public meeting