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Date Posted: 10:37:12 10/27/01 Sat
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's message, "No let-up in attacks on nationalists in north Belfast" on 08:48:51 10/27/01 Sat
No let-up in attacks on nationalists in north Belfast (continued)
Stones, bricks, bottles, hammers, knives, cross-bows, pipe/petrol/blast bombs and guns used against nationalists
Tuesday, October 16, 2001. Week Eight of the School year for the children of Holy Cross and their parents is a repeat of the last seven with no let-up in the unjust loyalist protest. The children and parents once again walked up the Ardoyne Road through the lines of Brit/RUC occupation forces. There’s a few foul and sectarian cat calls (if indeed thats the right words) on the way up the road to school.
As the parents return back down the road again the cat calls turn to out and out hate, waving of loyalist flags, the noise of their airhorns and whistles unable to drown out the voices of hate.
Eight pipe bombs and a number of bomb parts, a hand gun and ammunition are found at Hightown Road, Glengormley, North Belfast at Cavehill Country Park.
3pm. Parents gather to go up to Holy Cross school to pick the children up. As with that morning they are once again faced with the hate of loyalist bigots, who walk along the footpath step by step with the parents. The loyalists repeat this on the way back down Ardoyne Road again.
About 5.30pm a 13 year old Catholic, Pearse Quinn out walking his dog is grabbed by a man who tried to pull him into a waiting car on the Old Park Road. The boy only escaped after a struggle. Fears grew that this was yet another abduction attempt by loyalists, the fourth in a matter of weeks.
9pm. Fighting broke out at Whitewell Road, Serpintine Road and White City. Loyalist rioters attacked nationalist homes on interfaces in north Belfast. Nationalist street fighters pushed the loyalists back as Brit/RUC occupation forces flooded the area.
Around 9.45pm two pipe bombs were thrown on Hallidays Road over the so-called peace line at nationalists.
Wednesday, October 17, 2001. 9am. Day 38 of the loyalists unjust protest against the children of Holy Cross primary school. The walk up to school was no different than any other of the days. Through the same lines of Brit/RUC occupation forces to be faced once again with loyalist bigots. They waved their sectarian flags, shouted their foul hate, blew airhorns, whistles and some of them wearing masked of UFF leader Johnny Adair, believed to have played a part in the murder of over 40 nationalists. They stood very close to the parents and children as they walked up the Ardoyne Road.
Around 3pm. The parents of the Holy Cross children start off up the Ardoyne Road to school. As with the morning, as they go through the Brit/RUC occupation force lines they are faced with loyalist bigots; the hate clear once again in their shouts, they blow their airhorns and whistles and again a number of them have masks of Johnny Adair.
>> ‘a bomb goes off . . . Children run crying’
After picking the children up the parents and children make their way back down the Ardoyne Road. The loyalists walk along the footpath with their foul mouths, the whistles and airhorns. As the children and their parents come back through the RUC/Brit lines a bomb goes off causing panic. Children run crying as men and women try to find out where the bomb attack took place.
A loyalist bomber with no worry at all about the heavy force of Brits and RUC on the ground as well as a helicopter in the air, threw a bomb into the back of a nationalist house at Alliance Ave and just walked off again.
It must be pointed out although the Brit/RUC occupation forces were heavy on the ground in the Glenbryn and Alliance Ave area it took them ten minutes to get to the blast scene.
It was just luck alone that no-one was hurt or worse in this sectarian loyalist attack. The damage done to the back of the house clearly shows that murder was in the minds of the loyalist bombers.
Tension was very high around north Belfast and at around 9.45pm on the Antrim Road at the Newington area loyalists threw a bomb from a car and drove off at speed. The bomb that was thrown at a group of people didn’t go off. There was also minor trouble in a number of areas.
Thursday, October 18, 2001. 9am. Parents and children on Ardoyne once again set off up the road to school, through the lines of Brits and RUC beyond those lines once again loyalist bigots have gathered.
First the whistles and airhorns, then the sectarian hate and foul dirty shouts from old and young alike, the target for this is the parents and children of Holy Cross.
The sectarian flags of the UFF are waved close to the parents and children.
Tension is very high. The bombing of Wednesday afternoon very much in the minds of everyone.
The parents of the children face the same hate and bigotry as they return back down the Ardoyne Road again.
This was repeated as the parents went up in the afternoon to pick up the children and walked back down the Ardoyne Road again at 3pm.
7pm. A loyalist gunman opens fire on a group of nationalist children playing in the Clifton Park Ave. The man, who was wearing a grey top, ran back into a loyalist area off Clifton Park Ave.
Friday, October 19, 2001. 9am. Parents and their children gather to walk to Holy Cross primary school. As before they walk up the road through the Brit/RUC occupation forces lines.
They once again come face to face with the loyalist bigots.
This morning there’s no noise. No airhorns or whistles, but there’s a more sinister threat.
A group of men, believed to be UDA/UFF are able to stand very close to the parents and children. The men, who have their faces covered, watch everyone as they walk past.
This was repeated as the parents return back down the Ardoyne Road again.
3pm. As the parents of Holy Cross walk up the road to pick up their children the loyalists once again greet them with airhorns, whistles, foul mouths and sectarian shouts as they wave their sectarian flags.
On the return down the road the bigots greet the parents and children in the same way.
But the nature of these bigots was once again seen for what it is. As some of the children, two wee girls, cousins, were walking down the road holding a cuddly toy they fell. Other children fell as well, but the two cousings, Eimeer Mervyn, just four, and Rachel Mervyn, just six, suffered cuts to their legs.
What was sickening, even at this stage after everything that has gone on and that has been done to the children, was to see the loyalists bigots who made forward on seeing the children fall and with a sick joy at the fact two of the children were hurt, started shouting, laughing, cheering as well as clapping and calling the children stupid fenian bastards.
The hate in those people for ones so young runs very deep. Not even a small bit of feeling was shown for the children.
There’s no surprise. After all, these are the same people who have attacked the children with anything they could.
They have tried to hurt them and even murder them. We should never forget that, nor should we forget that for eight weeks now the children of Holy Cross have gone through so much. They have witnessed hate; a terrible bigoted hate; they have been called things, have had things said to them that through common decency along cannot be repeated.
They have been attacked with bricks, bottles, stones, fireworks, hot water and tea. Also balloons filled with urine and cigarettes, not forgetting the bomb attack, the children, the innocent of the innocent have gone through all this.
Children should not be hurt at all, let alone suffer all this, yet it’s allowed to go on,. Nowhere in the world would tolerate such things. They tell us things have changed. Nothing has changed although there are those who claim it has. This partitioned statelet in the north-east counties of Ireland is a Brit-made Orange statelet. The hate shown by those loyalist bigots is very much a part of this Orange State. It will go on as long as the Brits and now the Stormont regime enforce partition. Thos who only talk in a whisper about this injustice much now shout it out.
Saturday, October 20, 2001. 2pm. Loyalist rioters attack nationalist homes at the top of Alliance Ave and Ardoyne Road. They also run after children in Alliance Ave. As people come out of their homes to defend their houses fighting takes place. Loyalist rioters now attack nationalists with bottles, bricks, stones and fireworks. Some of the fireworks are doctored to cause as much damage as possible.
As more nationalists rush to the area fighting takes place. Nationalist street fighters push the loyalist rioters back up the Ardoyne Road towards Glenbryn. A number of people are injured and need hospital treatment.
The fighting subsides as Brit/RUC occupation forces flood the area. Lines of armoured tanks and Land Rovers drive up the Ardoyne Road and Crumlin Road.
At 3.45pm crowds are on the streets on both sides and tension is very high in the area.
Minor trouble also broke out in the Limestone Road area.
Sunday, October 21, 2001. 2pm. Loyalists attack nationalist areas at Limestone Road, Newington Street, North Queen Street, New Lodge, Ardoyne Road and Alliance Ave.
As loyalist bombers attacks homes on the Limestone Road and Newington Street and with the fear that loyalists are going to over run part of the area a nationalist gunman in believed to have opened fire, hitting one person. A number of the loyalist bombs went off. Others didn’t and lay in the street.
As Sunday went on so did the fighting, all over Belfast now. These areas were Ardoyne, Clifton Park Ave, Limestone Road, Newington, North Queen Street, New Lodge and Whitewell. Trouble was also going on at Alliace Ave where nationalist homes came under constant attack from the loyalist Alliance Road.
Crowds of people were on the streets as hundred of Brit Crown occupation forces patrolled all the areas in full riot gear, armoured cars and Land Rovers.
At around 8pm RUC and Brits moved into Newington and raided a number of nationalist homes. As this is going on a loyalist bomber throws a bomb into a Newington Street hitting a girl of nine in the chest, before the bomb ends up on the ground where it went off, wounding another little girl in the back and another injuries. Both girls had to be treated in hospital.
These children were out playing at their own door. This attack by loyalist bombers was clearly to murder the children and there’s no doubt that the UDA/UFF carried it out the UVF are also active in many areas.
The trouble went on through the night. A loyalist in the Glenbryn area fired into the nationalist Ardoyne using a cross-bow. The arrow was later found in a garden on the Ardoyne Road. There was also reports that two shots were fired on the Old Park Road.
Monday, October 22, 2001. 9am. The children and their parents once again gather on the Old Park Road to walk up to the school. They walked up the road over the rubble of the weekends trouble, broken bottles, bricks, stones and firework casings. Through RUC/Brit lines to meet the loyalist bigots again. But, today they make no noise, no airhorns or whistles. They just watch. But this has been a tactic. It gives the air an eerie feeling. Most of the time the threats are physical but this tactic threatens mentally. Mind games some would call it.
As one of the parents told SAOIRSE "its that weird feeling you get when they stand there and do nothing. Your thoughts can run riot, you start to wonder what they [loyalists] are up to and you always think of the worst. It’s just terrible".
There was minor trouble in a number of areas.
Tuesday, October 23, 2001. Parents and children once more walk to school. Like the day before the loyalists made no noise. As they did on Monday morning they stood and watched. This was also the case as the parents returned back down the Ardoyne Road again.
On Monday afternoon the parents of the children gathered at 3pm to walk up the Ardoyne Road. As they walked through the occupation forces lines the loyalist bigots tried to attack them. As they are back to their normal ways of foul mouths sectarian hate and waving sectarian flags. This was also repeated on the return back down the road with the children.
Trouble went on at Alliance Ave/Ardoyne Road from early in the night to well after 12pm.
A family of six were lucky not be hurt when a loyalist bomb goes off at the front door of their home in Deerpark Road. The Deer Park Road cuts through from the Old Park Road through Alliance Ave and runs along the bottom of Alliance Road and Glenbryn area. The Deer Park has both Catholics and Protestants living there. A number of nationalist houses have been attacked by loyalist bombers since June.
The attack took place around 9pm.
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