LIAM LYNCH/ARMAGH MARTYRS

25th Anniversary Of the Hunger Strike, 1981-2006

  

"Our revenge will be the laughter of our children"

Twenty five years since the hunger strike and the sacrifices of ten brave men, it is only fitting that we remember why these hero’s bore such pain in an act of total un-selflessness so there comrades could have what they rightly deserved, there status as Prisoner’s Of War.

They were Irish soldier’s fighting a war against an aggressor; they refused to bow to the wanton tyranny of a foreign occupational government. They did not give up the fight even behind the bar’s of Long Kesh concentration Camp, the terrible conditions that prisoner’s of war inside jail suffered, the constant degradation forced on them by the authorities, with much comparison to the situation today. The lack of education facilities, curtailed right of association, the intimidation suffered by visitors, the awful procedures there family and friend’s had to go through to visit them often to be turned away with out reason, all designed to hurt and cut of and alienate Irish Republican’s from the world, there attempt’s failed! they refused to labelled as criminal's!

The Good Friday Agreement signed away the Poltical status for which the hunger strikers gave their lives, so fellow Irish Republicans could hold their heads high, today any Irish Republican arrested is classed as a criminal! NO IRISH REPUBLICAN IS A CRIMINAL! 

It is the English Crown Forces who are acting as criminal's, they use remand as a form of internment that can last as long as 3 years, there where people who were interned for lesser periods but none the less they were interned! and accepted a such, they use the prevention of Terrorism act (PTA) to kidnap Irish Republican's without no evidence on trumped up charges! and what's worse they are getting away with these abuses of Human Rights!

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