IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

The Triangle of Death

· Red Weekly No. 113, 21 August 1975 · p. 12 of the scan · 370 words

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families have been petrol bombed out of their homes in the Green Island housing estate near the town of CARRICKFERGUS.

*Shots have been fired and petrol bonbs thrown at Catholic homes in LARNE, the old constituency of Vanguard Unionist leader William Craig.

*Mobs of Loyalist youths invaded the nationalist area of LURGAN, County Armagh, on three consecutive nights causing considerable damage and injury.

*And last Saturday night three people were injured and a tamily left homeless when Loyalists planted a bomb in the anti-Unionist Bone area of BELFAST.

Both Protestants and Catholics have presented evidence about British Army collusion in Loyalist attacks. On Sunday 10 August a major gun-battle was fought around the British-built 'peace-line' in Belfast between Republican volareas throughout the Six Counties, sparked off by British Army harassment and attacks on protesters commemorating the fourth anniversary of interment.

Television coverage of the shooting showed Loyalist civilians mingling with soldiers and pointing at areas at which the soldiers then let fly with a barrage of bullets. Loyalist residents of Baden-Powell Street (off the Shankill Road) revelea to a local paper, the Sunday News News, that members of the Parachute Regiment had urged them on the Sunday afternoon to go on the street and 'get the Taigs going. When they refused they claim the troops attacked them.

SUCCESS

The British exercise appears to have been prompted by the success of the anti-interment mobilisation. In an obvious attempt to sabotage • POMEROY • CAPPAGH CASTLE CAUFIELD • Such a failure is doubly inexcusable at a time when the antithe British military and its Loyalist allies. Recruitment campaigns have been launched to stabulary from the ranks of the Protestant para-military organisations, and a new top security prison is near completion at Meghaberry.

And after the Bayardo pub explosion, the Ulster Volunteer Force-which was responsible for the Miami showband massacre in they would launch a new wave of assassinations against the anti"security forces".

civil war, the Loyalists are now offering promises of rights for State. There is no doubt that the NEWMILLS • •GORTAVALE X •CONGO • DUNGANNON KILLYMAN • BOND'S ATTACKS • BUSH TAMNAMOR ROUND A BOu PLANTATION$ OTO • TULLYROAN

LOUGH

NGAGH SECTARIAN ASSASSINATIONS X PORTADOWN AREA

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