RUC/PSNI

Where Is The World?

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“Immediate expulsion of all Israeli diplomats from Éıre”. Gazans flee ahead of smiling soldiers from homes set ablaze by a tank flying the Israeli flag. This new mural on the international wall associates the current Israeli invasion of Gaza (which the Israelis call “Operation Protective Edge“) with the US/South Vietnamese attack on the village of Trang Bang during the Vietnam war by modelling itself on Nick Út’s 1972 Pulitzer prize-winning photograph for the Associated Press of villagers fleeing a napalm bombing (the photo can be seen at Wikipedia).

The mural is on the International Wall, Divis Street, west Belfast, as are the pavement stencils. “Free Gaza” is on Northumberland Street.

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Touts Will Be Shot

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Here is a gallery of graffiti from the Bogside (Meenan Square and around the Bogside Inn): “Death to Israel – God bless Hamas”, “RUC scum”, “All touts will be shot dead!”, “End loyalist marches now”, “Kill all RUC members now!”

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A Poisonous Legacy

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“British Army/RUC impunity – a poisonous legacy. 40+ years of British Army/RUC impunity, 351 dead, 4 prosecutions of soldiers. A police force that didn’t investigate, a prosecution service that didn’t prosecute, a judiciary that didn’t convict, an army that re-admitted convicted murderers, and successive governments that denied the murder of hundreds of [?interned?] civilians.”

The Poisonous Legacies conference was held in Derry’s Guildhall on June 14th and 15th 2013, organised by the Pat Finucane Centre and the Bloody Sunday Trust (pdf report).

This board is on the rear of Free Derry Corner.

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Beware The Risen People

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Here is a selection of graffiti (and crude drawings, of the INLA emblem and a petrol bomb) from the Bogside, Derry: “Brits out now – IRA”, “BRY/RSYM”, “Erin go bragh – INLA/IRSP – beır bua”, “PSNI scum”

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RUC George Cross

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“This window on the theme PEACE was given to mark the sacrifices and honour the achievements of the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross [foundation website] 1922-2001. Dedicated by The Most Reverend Lord Eames of Armagh 12th October, 2008. Houston McKelvey, dean [dedication text], Kenneth Patterson, warden, Phyllis Foster, warden.”

St Anne’s Cathedral, Donegall Street, Belfast city centre. Designed by Ann Smyth (web).

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The Lurgan Ambush

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On the evening of November 21, 1982, the car in which IRA volunteers Eugene Toman, Sean Burns, and Gervaise [also spelled “Gervase” and “Gervais”] McKerr were travelling was hit by 109 bullets and all three were killed. They were perhaps the first victims of the “shoot to kill” policy. The first of the five panels in this Kilwilkie mural shows the bullet-holes in the driver’s side of the car, pointing out an inconsistency with the RUC’s statement that the car had run an RUC checkpoint and was fired at only from behind. (An Phoblacht)

“Lurgan town was rocked with sorrow/On that bleak November day/Hushed tones and tears were mingled/When great numbers stopped to pray” – these are the opening lines of Ida Green’s poem ‘The Lurgan Ambush’ (sung by Bo Loughran on youtube)

“Cumann Thomáıs Uí Chléırıgh, An Lorgaın” – Clarke was raised in Dungannon, where is a cumann and GAA club in his name.

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