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Peltier transfer a minor victory (Free article)
30 March 2000
A prolonged campaign by international human rights activists and indigenous organisations to secure medical care for imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier has resulted in the Lakota man's transfer on Monday to a federal medical center in Rochester.
Lawyer puts pressure on Flanagan (Free article)
30 March 2000
An American lawyer who repeatedly warned the RUC and British government that solicitor Rosemary Nelson's life was in danger, beginning two years before her death, has written to RUC Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan, asking why no officers have yet been disciplined.
Search resumption welcomed (Free article)
30 March 2000
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams welcomed news on Wednesday, 29 March, that the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains is to recommence the search for the remains of a number of people killed by the IRA in the 1970s.
Alliance in Belfast mayor row (Free article)
30 March 2000
Alliance Party Councillors in Belfast have denied they agreed to back the selection of a Sinn Féin mayor for the city this year. Last year, Councillor Marie Moore became the first republican to hold the office of deputy mayor after the Alliance Party backed her.
Ahern's office occupied (Free article)
30 March 2000
Members of the Anti Racism Campaign and the Anti Fascist Association occupied Bertie Ahern's constituency office in Drumcondra, Dublin, on Tuesday evening, 28 March. They were protesting the cabinet's latest discriminatory measures to deal with refugees and asylum seekers. Eleven people were arrested and later released, with files sent to the DPP…
Basques highlight unjust arrests (Free article)
30 March 2000
A three-member Herri Batasuna delegation from the Basque Country was in Ireland this week to highlight the continued detention of members of the party's international department by the Spanish authorities.
Burmese exiles in freedom plea (Free article)
30 March 2000
On Saturday, 18 March, the Freedom of the City of Dublin was conferred on the 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate and Leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, a woman who symbolises the resistance of the Burmese population to the military regime that has oppressed them for the last 38 years. In a shared ceremony, U2 and their…
Government and media fan racial tensions (Free article)
5 April 2000
``The ineptitude, if not outright racialism in government, is directly to blame for what appears to be growing racial tension throughout communities in Ireland,'' says an angry Christy Burke, Sinn Féin Councillor in Dublin. ``The crisis in housing and the determination of the government to ape racist policies in England are the root cause of…
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