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Date Posted: 08:50:38 08/13/02 Tue
P>HMP MAGHABERRY - Update
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>1. Actual assaults and death threats – source –
>Loyalist Prisoners Reaction Force
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>2. It is believed there are 3 sentenced anti-Stormont
>PoWs
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>3. There are 13 alleged “dissidents” on remand,
>awaiting trial
>
>4. The chances of a unified campaign outside the
>prison are very slim, as some groups, including the
>IA-PL and, according to the Andy’town News, the RIRA,
>will have no truck with those who are prepared to
>administer the new colonial arrangements set up
>through the GFA. The IA-PL, for example, argue that
>the Brits, police, screws and Stormont politicians now
>have a common paymaster, and all are part and parcel
>of the very system that the PoWs have opposed. All the
>aforementioned, it is argued, have a common and vested
>interest in attempting to criminalise all
>anti-Stormont prisoners, in a collective bid to
>legitimize the “new” colonial status quo. It looks
>as if each group, as they say, will be doing their own
>thing to support the PoW cause.
>
>5. The current Brit policy of enforced integration, in
>spite of the fact that this endangers the lives of
>isolated and greatly outnumbered republicans, is a
>willful strategy to wear down, not only the prisoners
>themselves, but their families, friends and supporters
>on the outside. “Mixing” prisoners, who are sworn
>enemies on the outside, is by no means accidentally or
>unwittingly implemented. Such a policy would be
>viewed as insane if advocated in any other conflict
>region in the world. It is part and parcel of the
>attempt to criminalise republicans, while Britain,
>internationally, tries to promote an entirely false
>impression that all prisoners are being treated
>equally. Segregation must be fought for so that they
>are treated more humanely. The international
>community must be told, Britain, the occupying power,
>has a duty of care to all prisoners, and that their
>physical safety and psychological well-being is
>supposedly guaranteed by transnational and global
>conventions. Segregation is merely the minimum measure
>that the London government must implement IMMEDIATELY;
>if lives are not to be lost due to organized
>reactionary elements within the confines of HMP
>Maghaberry.
>
>6. We, on the outside should intensify our efforts in
>spite of the diversity of political viewpoints. It is
>emerging that the PoWs have a number of specific
>demands, on which to build campaigns. These are, as
>far as we are led to believe:
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>i) immediate segregation ( must be the top priority )
>ii) group representation
>iii) a right to elect a spokesperson for each
>republican group
>iv) the provision of a separate wing
Posted to "Stormont-Watch" - 04/30/02
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