Bloody Sunday.
connection with an IRA mortar attack on a at any time. If sent to Germany, Roisin is
F. Stuart Ross
Roisin's German lawyer, Elke Nill, before even coming to trial. She will also be
Later that evening, the families of the believes the impetus for the extradition separated from her child.
victims of the massacre gathered in Derry's came from the RUC (Northern Irish police)
Guild Hall for a press conference. "For 26 and not from German federal police. Not Secretary can also deny the extradition.
years we have been campaigning to surprisingly, the RUC have ignored the Back in November of last year he was sent a establish truth and justice in respect of the extensive evidence confirming Roisin's complete file on Roisin's detailing the lack events of Bloody Sunday," said John Kelly, presence in Ireland on the dates when they of any case against her. It is within his brother of one of the 14 dead. "We hope that allege she was spotted in Germany.
potential of today's the historic developments will be fulfilled and we can argued that the British government's treat- expected in the last week of January, but it ment of Roisin amounted to cruel, inhuman never came. Rosin's mother has already finally heal the wounds left by Bloody and degrading treatment. In May 1997, a expressed concerns that, in the wake of
Sunday."
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, the High Court Judge released Roisin from Tony Blair's Bloody Sunday announcement, prison on a limited form of bail. Three days the British government would not now veteran civil rights campaigner and former
MP, also gave cautious welcome to the later — under armed guard in a London move to release ner daugnter.
Prime Minister's announcement. McAliskey hospital — Roisin gave birth to a baby girl.
She is now in a mother-and-baby unit at news by the end of January," she said. "I the ill-fated antihad taken part in internment march twenty six years ago. She London's Maudsley psychiatric hospital. expect they'll drag their feet now until those was on the speaker's platform when soldiers She is recovering from the trauma of her who are upset by the Bloody Sunday move from Britain's elite Parachute Regiment interrogation, detention and imprisonment settle down."
opened fire on unarmed civilians.
"I am pleased," said McAliskey," that disorder. Hospital psychiatrists have already the Home Secretary's decision will be a the British government has finally afforded certified that extraditing the young woman political decision based upon progress, or at least a measure of justice to the families could cause her permanent emotional and the lack of it, in the "peace process"
the other Europe
The Elf mafia
Prime Minister Leonel Jospin must regret his modest attempts to 'modernise' France's foreign aid programme. By imposing parliamentary control on funds previously administered by the president, he has opened the floodgates of investigation and protest against the dirty underside of French policy in its former colonies.
Five Green MPs have demanded a parliamentary enquiry into the countrys third largest company, Elf Aquitaine
Privatised in 1994, the oil company is the centrepiece of a web of corruption linking business and political elites in
France and her former colonies in Africa.
These country's also receive half
France's "aid."
A coalition of radical groups in France and Atrica has launched a campaign to
"stop Elf making the laws in Africa" and
"for a different policy" towards Africa.
Contact: Campagne Elf, c/o Cedetim, 21-ter Rue Voltaire,
75001 Paris
6 International Viewpoint #298 awaiting extradition to Germany in British Army barracks
Human rights groups around the world and is being treated for post-traumatic stress Conscientious objection
Ville Vuorjoki, vice-chairman of the Communist Youth of Finland and a city councillor in Rovaniemi, has been sentenced to 77 days in prison after refusing to continue his civil service after 240 days (the time that armed conscripts serve).
There are 13 conscientious objectors in Finnish prisons, but the number will probably increase when the armed conscription time is shortened to six months later this year. This will increasing the discrimination between military service and the alternative, civil service, which lasts 13 months Contact: The Conscientious Objectors' League, Rauhanasema, Veturitori, 00530 Helsinki, Finland, Tel +3589-140427 Fax +358-9-147297 E-mail: <aklry@freenet.hut.fi» Web: www.kaapeli.fi/~akl
Straw can order McAliskey's extradition likely to spend the next two years in prison
In the interests of justice, the Home power to release the young Irish woman.
A decision one way or another was
"We had expected to get the good or bad
Sadly, she is probably right. In the end,
.* Dalej!
The Polish group Nurt Lewicy Rewolucyjnej (NLR-Revolutionary Left Current) has been recognised as a sympathising organisation of the Fourth International. The Warsaw-based group, which publishes the newspaper Dalej! (Forwards!) is a regular participant in the summer camp of European youth organisations identified with the Fourth International.
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On January 29, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the British
World Bank/IMF/WTO: The Free Market Fiasco
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Asia * additional revenue in dollars, while import prices continued to skyrocket.
This draining away of a quarter of export revenues is out of proportion to the debt payments, which only constitute 6% of exports.
A loss of revenues on this scale made a big dent in the balance of payments and caused a crisis at the treasury, which echoed the difficulties of neighbouring countries albeit in a different context.
The IMF showed its true colours, by demanding, among the preconditions for its bailout plan, dismantling of the big conglomerates (chaebols) and their opening to foreign investment. The goal is to break a development model that is too