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Was MURDERED organised a march to the headquarters up once again the dual standards of the It is now becoming standard practice for Gerard Fennell, along with many other away. They broke open the large entrance and watched armed Loyalists hi-jack the British army to lie in an ambush people from the area, was engaged in gates and were finally stopped by two hundreds of vehicles — and not a word position from which they can watch the hi-jacking vehicles in the estate to block saracen loads of soldiers at a second barrier. | Was said, let alone shots fired. movement of their prospective victims, kill roads as a protest against Hugh Coney’s Two women were finally admitted to And these are the security’ forces them and still not be seen by anyone murder. Shortly afterwards the army put make a protest to a lower-rank officer that Bishop Philbin wants us to put our around. This exercise was used most out a statement saying that Gerard who promised an enquiry. But two later faith in. recently in the Twinbrook Estate in Belfast. | Fennell was armed, despite denials by the the murderer was back on daily patrol in We strongly condemn the murder Following on the murder of Hugh Coney, people present when he was shot, and by the estate. So much for promises from of Gerard Fennell and offer our sympathy the unarmed Long Kesh prison escapee. the driver of the man that was stopped. the B.A. to his young wife and family.

The explosions at McGurks Bar : ig f th district took a terrible toll of children, women and men and over a period of years dozens of the local residents have been pcked off going to or coming from work, walking down the street or on occasions sitting in their own homes.

Price of supporting struggle This is the price which the people are being forced to pay by the British for supporting the present campaign to force British interests and oppression out of Ireland.

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People from the estate immediately The murder of Gerard Fennell shows of General King — the British Army GOC, British imperialist forces. For during the who lives in a large mansion not far UWC strike the British Army stood by a riot in the New Lodge district. Billy Reid, one of the first I.R.A.

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Jails & Dole queues filled from N.Lodge Many of the cells and cages of Crumlin Road and Armagh Jails, Long Kesh and Magilligan camps are filled with young people from the New Lodge. So too are the Dole queues. Although the docks, the Duncrue Street Complex Jennymount Industrial Estate, Gallahers cigarette factory, etc. are quite close to the New Lodge they employ very few people from the area and even then usually only in lower-paid, manual-type jobs.

So it is not surprising that nearly half the male working population is unemployed.

New Lodge ‘mini-Motorman’ After Operation Motorman had come into effect, the New Lodge was later singled out for another ‘mini-Motorman’ in which the area was placed practically under curfew and ripped apart in arms searches. Nothing was found, yet only hours after the operation ended, another soldier was British and Loyalist assassins Similarly a few days after ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Derry, the New Lodge came in for its own massacre when one night six young men were shot dead and others wounded by the British Army.

Since then a campaign of terror by assassins has been carried on by army-protected loyalist fascists. Recently during a particularly bad spate of murders a car bomb was planted outside a Catholic primary school. The explosion devasted several nearby houses and injured children playing in the street.

Repression fails to repress New Lodge All this indicates the ruthless determination of the authorities to hammer all resistance in the area. But the violent upsurge in recent weeks after the ‘Long Kesh Riot* not only proved that the people were not cowed by murder and terror — it also boosted the morale and the confidence of the people in themselves.

The people of the New Lodge have hung on for five years now, and are far from surrendering now that victory is closer than ever.

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