and that safeguards against abuse are effective.
at Hola Detention Camp. writes LIZ CURTIS.
The Northern Ineland Office denpunced the Thames prog Tamime makers as lrresponsible and stated that the lives of police officers would be put at risk.
Kenneth. Newman, Palestinetrained Chief Constable of the On Tuesdas 24 February 1959, Tory Colonial Under-Secretary Julian Amery had this to say: The Government in Kenys and the Prison Service in Kenya is perfectly capable of keeping its own boase in order and is doing so. Our contention is that the organisation of the Prison Service is right and is what it should be A week later eleven Africans were beaten to death by warders On 27 October the Thames Television programme This Week presenied a careful study, utilising statements from doctors and solicitors, of the interrogation methods used by the Royal Ulster Constabulary af Castlereagh Barracks, Belfast. Observing the response to this in Parliement and the press, you might be forgiven for thinking you had heard it all somewhere before, RUC, was "furious". He claimed. storce b valy concerned with human rights.
As usual, Airey Neave, Tory SEULCESOT DINOTLICC land stole the show, The broadcast of 'uncorroborated" statemonts wowd De ruse tc propa Fassing spirit of declared.
Hard on the heels of these ECHE TICHEIIS versicns of Newnan's claim that 178500938 WOUEILE TESUIVIS gations indicare', said the eraph on 31 October, "tha: one HTa mC -PTOVADIR Wus large wbiskeys and a box of kingsize MITAITCI Castlereagh's Centre' The following day that aur Airey, ably assisted hy the press. launcbod tis propaganda masterstroke. 'Shame ef our Soldiers in Ulter Stums"
Tront page of abour torture had been neatly headed off. gullible British public being led oy the mose into the uncamfortable bunkers of Crossmagien Barracks.
Amid all the thunder, not one Pr Costeresgh and other imerro- noie rice hasa r nT.
they don't simply throw open the doors and invite us all inside.
TEMO TOULISCE COME
only the tip of the iceberg. Eddie. Rooney, 25, from Ballymurphy, RE THOWE TOME SLOWJOUE window of Springhield Road RUC station during interrogaLUE OE CO ECIHUUY In June, MeGrath was under acerropation reagh and ended up in an Omagh mental hospital able onls to say TATEL WOEUS hospital"
During the Queen's visit in Socialisi CAINE Be erroriam, h TEVAEHT were deliberately Tele for punching DWA C-CWHICa with the apparently arresied was by the RUC lo strangle him. are TOOTHPICKS 64-year-old Peter toothpicks insered under driver Insane at Castlefactory' answer.
in the JOHN MAGLE noets Nom Bells! August one of the many people was so badly heaten both by th Leo Army at Fort Monash and chei Castlereagh tha September: his doctor sald he didn't know how he had survived, as well as being beaten all over Bis body, b had sandpaper rubbed over hi back, he was hit on the bead with a hell, and an atlempt was made Many other detainoes have made statements describing bou were made to go round the cell on all fours like dogs, had their balr, been threatened with elec JUE SO JUEU the TORTURE trie shocks, had thumbs pressed into their cars, had a rope liod to the ankles which is pulled every time the victim pives an "unsatisMany of the statements con chide Ilke one nade by Mrs Cealpor her som fim, arested il Tur! Lodge "The Branch men threarened to kill him unless he slaned a statement. which he dot so, because he said he coald no ake any more of the beating and mental torture which they were inflicting on him.
Such sigoed stalemients are the reason for the whole operation Over 80 per cenc of convictions in the no jury courts of Norbern SILNOQ BITOTEBi TIC OsE of such 'confessions*, which are cherefore the foundation of the RUC"s much-vaunted success at purting people away.
Torture to elicit statements complemented by the no-jury couris, is the lyoch-pin ot strategy which essentinlly inNOIE MIlAg ao many voun Carholic working class people ic jail as possible.
PROTESTS Whatever the public silence on this side of the water, protesta against torture continue to come trom calabusbmene bodies sucE as the SDLP und the Association of Police Surgeons, from a group of 30. Northern Ireland solicitor: who are contemplatine a hoyporr of the couns, tom West Belfas trade unsoaists who preunised protest march down the Falis Road Tast week, and even fron the UDA.
And in the ebeitos, lortare and the H-blocks are having the samt effect ou the children thar intertment did on the generation ciow in the forefront of the struggle -an absding IISLEHL LACI hatred of British rule.