20 May 1999 Edition
Back issue: Revolution soldiers
The victorious emergence of blanket-leader Kieran Nugent from the H-Block tombs last week showed the British government and the world that republican political prisoners-of-war will not be `criminalised'.
Britain's continued imposition of cellular confinement, no exercise, no fresh air, forcible bathing, shearing and beatings upon the naked prisoners in the H-Blocks is increasingly shown to be futile.
An Phoblacht salutes Kieran Nugent and Derry man John Deery (released from the H-Blocks a fortnight ago) and sends greetings to our imprisoned comrades who have made the H-Blocks a real and significant battlefield. `Criminalisation' is being smashed and the beatings being carried out in H-Block are failing to drive men off the blanket protest.
The British know that the H-Block men are revolutionary soldiers. They even admit it privately - as is shown in the secret Ministry of Defence document, prepared by Brigadier Glover, now commander of British army land forces in the North. The public exposure of this document a week ago represents a major breakthrough in exposing the hypocrisy of the British.
Britain's continued imposition of cellular confinement, no exercise, no fresh air, forcible bathing, shearing and beatings upon the naked prisoners in the H-Blocks is increasingly shown to be futile.
An Phoblacht salutes Kieran Nugent and Derry man John Deery (released from the H-Blocks a fortnight ago) and sends greetings to our imprisoned comrades who have made the H-Blocks a real and significant battlefield. `Criminalisation' is being smashed and the beatings being carried out in H-Block are failing to drive men off the blanket protest.
The British know that the H-Block men are revolutionary soldiers. They even admit it privately - as is shown in the secret Ministry of Defence document, prepared by Brigadier Glover, now commander of British army land forces in the North. The public exposure of this document a week ago represents a major breakthrough in exposing the hypocrisy of the British.