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Getting Away With Murder
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event notice
Monday May 17, 2004 13:24
by Ali la Pointe - fu-fighting anti-imperialistas

From the Bogside to Basra
A Solidarity Vigil
Friday May 21 at 12.30
at Guildhall Square
A vigil will be held in Derry to show solidarity with Iraqi families who have had loved ones murdered by the British Army over the past year. The vigil is being organised by Derry families who have lost loved ones in similar circumstances; the Pat Finucane Centre; and the Coalition of the Unwilling representing individuals opposed to the war in Iraq.

War Criminal Bush
A number of relatives from Derry will read out short testimonials recalling the circumstances of their own loss and the details of an individual killed at the hands of the British Army over the past year in southern Iraq.
The theme of the vigil, 'Getting Away with Murder-From the Bogside to Basra', draws the links between the horrific stories coming out of Iraq in 2004 with the reality in Derry, Belfast and elsewhere for so many years. Whether the victims were 11 year old boys in Derry in 1982 or 8 year old girls in Basra in 2004 the story has changed little. British military spokesmen claim that 'gunmen opened fire', the Military Police cover up the murder and the British government stress that 'our boys are operating under very difficult circumstances'. And the killing...of men, women and children... goes on and on.
The British invasion of Iraq was led by General Mike Jackson. As a captain and unit press officer in the Parachute Regiment Jackson was present in Rossville St on Bloody Sunday. Jackson did not recall any soldiers 'firing their weapons' according to his statement to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. He is overall Commander of those soldiers guilty of murdering, torturing and raping Iraqi civilians today, 32 years on.
Jackson also decided that the two Scots Guards who murdered Peter Mc Bride in Belfast could remain in the British Army. Then they were sent to Basra. The Bogside was Basra. Basra is the Bogside.
The British Army murdered people in this city...and got away with it. Now they are murdering people in Iraq...and getting away with it.
Show your solidarity - come to the vigil!
Stop the killing-prosecute the guilty!

Bogside - Basra; Occupation spells Human Rights abuses.