SUPPORT HBLOCK PRISONERS JULY 9™ MEMBERS OF the Belfast-based Central Relatives' blanket for a year.
My dear My nane's miuch as 1 can.
on my promunciations: lot of about 150 song Irish rebel tunes. IT IS very difficult to get news out of H block, Long Kesh. The isolation of the prisoners, their barbaric treatment and the mental and physical conditions of the prisoners make it difficult.
So 'Socialist Challenge' is fortunate to have received a letter written within the last twe weeks from inside H Block. The letter was sent to us by a supporter who received it from a friend who has been 'on the The letter was written on a paper hanky and smuggled out. It does not make pleasant reading.
forgot (ha ha). Well honey I'm an the Just in case you always a chance. blanket a year this month. This can't be a long letter because it will be difficul: to get out. But I will try and tell you as I'm well ahead with my Ciaelic, I'm now taking two classes a day, one for beuinners and a more advanced one. 1 know more Irish grammar than I do English, I have songs written in Gaelic tables, lockers.
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OTTSLaESOS heside them another pop. folk which I've learned and I just sing a few now and then to I've also started a scrial which I write Just beside my head whiere I sicep I've drawn an island, sea and sunset, bits of romantic Gaelic phrases with a hearl and ap arrow — cure. This is how some places whtite ] food down. write. This (paper bankyj isa luxury which I may never get won't give us any toilet paper, when they do we get two or three We never get parcels and anly one letter a mooth. Imighen't ger yours, bur haven't got one from you in over three months, but don'i stop trying. there's E gor moved the other wock into a new wing. My cell is empty but for a mattress and ihree blankeis. When 1 go Dn-CC Ane Ine pradaeE ba pwasiy for three days every fortaighr by the bears remnoval of Turniture from their cells) there is nothing at all: we cat off ihe floor, we have no beds. no chairs Notting at all, only a The food is never warm, no salt or distinctive tuste, the potatoes are hard andblack. The food is really uncacable The wall, celing and door are all practically covered with decaying lood Piles of it, around the wall and heapeu are all black, with live mies over They had the popes on full and it's like a jungle, trickles of water running down thenugh the decaying lood, groen ib hath.
I's geling harder to cat and keep We have to cat away from CODE EUS that's where the majority of mageots gather. It's a bit sekcalle thore is that many ot them that they are crawling under the door and all over the (prison) wing - they re rouch; some drop from the walls.
They' ve opened a special hospital block to keep us SEрaeIEDI the TTN51 priso population. We have washed neariw three Nontls, Cas Bougelte times because of the hear and stench o urine exercmient and decavine 1o0d Ir's hard to breathe and with ct burning. There's a pipe at the windou There's Jittle air. The blanker I have use in an effort ta contain the beat fro DEPRESSION Everyone goes to mass on Sunda except a lew. Men just drop tound vo like Thies. They're that weak. 1 wen down on one knee bur came arour okay. Others have been caken out o trolleys. One still hasn't come hack These are fully grown men. Man suifer from menta depression, one E bad that they had to ger a specialist wh then ordered him to he taken out. He in another block and munted by it (prisor guards), Tunati Jonatic"
Most of us have lost weight, son drastically. Oving as we were we rotte slowly, Now as hum an beings we deca much quicker in an atlempt to ha people help us.
SPIRIT All Northern Irelant calls (political) status, yet we rot and we w rot until we are no more for there cant no return for us. It is victors or dear Any who come throuch will be scarre for life mentally or physically. mayt We are being drained day by das. Just don't know why someone hast Ceea sertrom sometnEng- EL s rumouR the guy mentioned carli ESUETA TE TOCI TETEL UC CAOUEY Just Tade away. He will never break Our bodies and minds touched, bet not the spirit of bur caust li's just because we are what we are Let the world know this, we here ar