Let the Truth Be Told - Ballymurphy 11 Relatives Demand Justice
Mary Pearson - Troops Out Movement | 12.01.2008 00:22 | Birmingham
This is to advertise our forthcoming speaking tour with the daughters of two people who were shot dead by the British Army at the start if Internment in the North of Ireland in 1971. They have never had justice. Come and listen to their story. Their parents were murdered in our name.
Troops Out Movement says
LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD
Ballymurphy 11 Speaking Tour & Photo Exhibition
Birmingham Public Meeting
Thursday 24th January 2008 7.30pm
Rooms 3&4 Council House Victoria Square, City Centre
Speakers
Alice Harper – Daughter of Daniel Taggart, Murdered by British Paratroopers
Briege Voyle - Daughter of Joan Connolly Murdered by British Paratroopers
Cahil McElhinney - Brother of Kevin Murdered by British Paratroopers
on Bloody Sunday in Derry
Moazzam Begg – Ex Guantanamo Bay Prisoner
Ballymurphy is a housing estate, in West Belfast in the north of Ireland. The Ballymurphy 11 were local residents murdered by the British Army Parachute Regiment, during the first 3 days of Internment in 1971. No one was ever brought to justice and the victims have never had the focus of the Bloody Sunday victims. Thirteen of the fourteen Bloody Sunday victims were shot dead within 20 minutes in full view of the world’s media. The Ballymurphy victims were shot over 3 days in their own streets. The families have now come together to demand justice
OTHER VENUES
Mon 21 Jan – Manchester 7pm – Contact for details
Tue 22 Jan – Liverpool – 7pm St Michaels Irish Centre 6 Boundary La, Everton, Liverpool, L6 5JG
Wed 23 Jan – Nottingham 7.30 International Community Centre 61b Mansfield Road
Fri 25 & Sat 26th Jan – Meetings with Trade Unionists & Community Groups
Sun 27th Jan – London 2pm - Annual meeting with Bloody Sunday Relatives
Irish Centre, 50 – 52 Camden Square, Murray St NW1
Finances are needed for expenses
Please send donations to address below
Troops Out Movement
Campaigning for British Withdrawal from Ireland
PO Box 1032 Birmingham B12 8BZ Tel: 0121 773 8683 0r 0797 017 4167
troopsoutmovement@btinternet.com www.troopsoutmovement.com
Ballymurphy, Belfast - August 9th – 11th 1971
A vicious massacre of defenceless people, written out of history, is now being written back in by their relatives
Fr Hugh Mullan (38) shot dead by British Paratroopers while administering the last rites to injured local man Bobby Clarke
Frank Quinn (19) window cleaner, father of one child, wife expecting another, shot dead whilst helping Fr Mullan
Noel Phillips (19) shot dead
Joan Connolly (45) mother of eight, shot dead whilst helping Noel Phillips
Danny Taggart, father of 13, window cleaner, shot 14 times, died where he lay
Joseph Murphy, father of 12, died two weeks after being shot – Phillips, Connolly, Taggart and Murphy were shot together in a cluster of a few yards facing the British army base Henry Taggart in the evening sun, chatting to friends
Joseph Corr (43), father of seven, shot walking with his son, died two weeks later
Eddie Doherty, father of four, bin man, shot dead on the Whiterock Road
John Laverty (19), last seen leaving his Dermott Hill home, found shot dead nearby
John McKerr (49), father, shot dead in the grounds of Corpus Christi church
Pat McCarthy (44), suffered a heart attack and died when Paras pointed a rifle into his face and threatened to kill him.
LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD
Ballymurphy 11 Speaking Tour & Photo Exhibition
Birmingham Public Meeting
Thursday 24th January 2008 7.30pm
Rooms 3&4 Council House Victoria Square, City Centre
Speakers
Alice Harper – Daughter of Daniel Taggart, Murdered by British Paratroopers
Briege Voyle - Daughter of Joan Connolly Murdered by British Paratroopers
Cahil McElhinney - Brother of Kevin Murdered by British Paratroopers
on Bloody Sunday in Derry
Moazzam Begg – Ex Guantanamo Bay Prisoner
Ballymurphy is a housing estate, in West Belfast in the north of Ireland. The Ballymurphy 11 were local residents murdered by the British Army Parachute Regiment, during the first 3 days of Internment in 1971. No one was ever brought to justice and the victims have never had the focus of the Bloody Sunday victims. Thirteen of the fourteen Bloody Sunday victims were shot dead within 20 minutes in full view of the world’s media. The Ballymurphy victims were shot over 3 days in their own streets. The families have now come together to demand justice
OTHER VENUES
Mon 21 Jan – Manchester 7pm – Contact for details
Tue 22 Jan – Liverpool – 7pm St Michaels Irish Centre 6 Boundary La, Everton, Liverpool, L6 5JG
Wed 23 Jan – Nottingham 7.30 International Community Centre 61b Mansfield Road
Fri 25 & Sat 26th Jan – Meetings with Trade Unionists & Community Groups
Sun 27th Jan – London 2pm - Annual meeting with Bloody Sunday Relatives
Irish Centre, 50 – 52 Camden Square, Murray St NW1
Finances are needed for expenses
Please send donations to address below
Troops Out Movement
Campaigning for British Withdrawal from Ireland
PO Box 1032 Birmingham B12 8BZ Tel: 0121 773 8683 0r 0797 017 4167
troopsoutmovement@btinternet.com www.troopsoutmovement.com Ballymurphy, Belfast - August 9th – 11th 1971
A vicious massacre of defenceless people, written out of history, is now being written back in by their relatives
Fr Hugh Mullan (38) shot dead by British Paratroopers while administering the last rites to injured local man Bobby Clarke
Frank Quinn (19) window cleaner, father of one child, wife expecting another, shot dead whilst helping Fr Mullan
Noel Phillips (19) shot dead
Joan Connolly (45) mother of eight, shot dead whilst helping Noel Phillips
Danny Taggart, father of 13, window cleaner, shot 14 times, died where he lay
Joseph Murphy, father of 12, died two weeks after being shot – Phillips, Connolly, Taggart and Murphy were shot together in a cluster of a few yards facing the British army base Henry Taggart in the evening sun, chatting to friends
Joseph Corr (43), father of seven, shot walking with his son, died two weeks later
Eddie Doherty, father of four, bin man, shot dead on the Whiterock Road
John Laverty (19), last seen leaving his Dermott Hill home, found shot dead nearby
John McKerr (49), father, shot dead in the grounds of Corpus Christi church
Pat McCarthy (44), suffered a heart attack and died when Paras pointed a rifle into his face and threatened to kill him.
Mary Pearson - Troops Out Movement
e-mail:
troopsoutmovement@btinternet.com
Homepage:
http://www.troopsoutmovement.com
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TOM - breaking tru ignorance and getting the truth out..........
16.01.2008 01:01
and of course the actual troops out marches themselves.
this is a very worthy campaign, the hypocrisy of the english/brit state regarding the actions of the paras, esp this lot - here, derry and elsewhere, is truly staggering. is hard 2 believe how they go around the world preaching freedom and democracy, etc and resolving conflict - while refusing to acknowledge the damage they done to Ireland, etc
i would also like to thank you for Aly Renwick's new book 'oliver's army' and would encourage anyone interested to get it, or read the bits i hear u have reposted on the site all together at once, is a grand book, especially the chapter 'the iron fist in the velvet glove'
my best wishes for justice for the good relatives of this murdered victims of the brit army and my solidarity for their struggle.......
btw - this is no diss at all on the great majority of the brit working class, a large number of who have seen thr the distortion and outright lies told about 'the troubles' (understatement or irony) and many of whom are great friends to the irish workers and have helped in many ways the struggle for freedom from imperialism and also capitalism
SAOIRSE
slan go foill
mich
Mark Anthony France
21.01.2008 12:09
Mark Anthony France
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mafrance@hotmail.co.uk
The truth about military occupation will be told and justice will come
21.01.2008 12:21
mark anthony france
Manchester meeting
21.01.2008 23:22
Genni
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