Easter Statement 1978
The Leadership of the Republican Movement extends
greetings to comrades, friends and supporters at home
and abroad on this the 62nd anniversary of the
Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
We remember with pride our fallen comrades, whose
tragic and untimely deaths have caused sorrow and
suffering in many homes. The British presence has
ensured this tradition of violent death, sorrow and
suffering in every generation. We remember also the
untimely deaths of many of our citizens, who died as a
result of British interference in our country.
The leadership of the Republican Movement on this
Easter Sunday sends greeting to all the prisoners in
England, Ireland and America and pays special tribute
to our courageous comrades who are protesting in naked,
solitary confinement for prisoner-of-war status inside
the jails in the occupied Six Counties.
It has taken eighteen months for the name of H-Block,
and the British brutality it represents, to seep
through to the media. H-Block has been eighteen months
of immeasurable inhumanity for almost 300 young Irish
men. Their long suffering has only slowly cut its way
through the usual mediocre accounts of life in the
north, behind which British repressive rule hides.
Republican News Easter April 1978
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