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22/08/2001
Paramilitary attacks on juveniles increase two fold
Paramilitary assaults on juveniles in Northern Ireland have nearly doubled in the two years following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, according to a new report.
During 1999 and 2000 punishment gangs, believed to be connected to loyalist and republican paramilitary groups, attacked 47 under-18s compared with 25 in the previous two years.
The research, carried out by Liam Kennedy, Professor of Modern History at Queen's University in Belfast, was revealed in a published report called ‘They Shoot Children Don’t They’.
In his report, which contains eyewitness accounts of attacks, Professor Kennedy said loyalist and republican punishment squads were carrying out their own form of “justice” with increasing regularity despite ongoing peace negotiations.
The report identifies the "urgent need" for the immediate establishment of an anti-intimidation unit in Northern Ireland and urged the Stormont Assembly and General John de Chastelain's decommissioning body to monitor the scale of the attacks.
Prof Kennedy said his fear for Northern Ireland’s future was of "the consolidation of a patchwork of mafia-style mini-states, of orange and green complexion, operating vendetta-style justice and sustained economically by extortion and other forms of racketeering".
The report, prepared for the cross-community Northern Ireland Committee Against Terrorism and the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, will be submitted to the Stormont Assembly when it returns after the summer recess. (AMcE)
During 1999 and 2000 punishment gangs, believed to be connected to loyalist and republican paramilitary groups, attacked 47 under-18s compared with 25 in the previous two years.
The research, carried out by Liam Kennedy, Professor of Modern History at Queen's University in Belfast, was revealed in a published report called ‘They Shoot Children Don’t They’.
In his report, which contains eyewitness accounts of attacks, Professor Kennedy said loyalist and republican punishment squads were carrying out their own form of “justice” with increasing regularity despite ongoing peace negotiations.
The report identifies the "urgent need" for the immediate establishment of an anti-intimidation unit in Northern Ireland and urged the Stormont Assembly and General John de Chastelain's decommissioning body to monitor the scale of the attacks.
Prof Kennedy said his fear for Northern Ireland’s future was of "the consolidation of a patchwork of mafia-style mini-states, of orange and green complexion, operating vendetta-style justice and sustained economically by extortion and other forms of racketeering".
The report, prepared for the cross-community Northern Ireland Committee Against Terrorism and the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, will be submitted to the Stormont Assembly when it returns after the summer recess. (AMcE)
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