``We have the ability to win''
Incessant rain greeted the several thousand marchers who turned
out on Belfast's Falls Road on Sunday 14 August for the start of
the seventeenth anniversary march to commemorate the introduction
of internment without trial on 9 August 1971.
The march and rally, which was attended by delegations from the
Troops Out Movement, The Basque country and Irish Northern Aid
from North America, assembled at Dunville Park at 2.30pm and set
off along the traditional route along the Falls Road to Connolly
House in Andersonstown at 3pm. There was the normal heavy
presence of crown forces all along the route but neither they nor
the driving rain did anything to dampen the spirits of the people
who marched along to the tunes of the well turned out bands, some
of whom had travelled from Scotland.
The march was led by a seven person colour party at the head of
the Kevin Barry Flute Band from Calton in Scotland. Behind them
came a group of young people carrying placards demanding ``No
Extradition''. Throughout the length of the march there were
colourful banners and flags including the green, red and white of
the Basque nation.
Phoblacht, 18 August 1988.
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