Former POW beaten
By Mick Naughton.
A former republican POW, from North Belfast has told of
a vicious RUC attack upon him last weekend. Four RUC
members from a mobile support unit wearing green
scarves over their faces grabbed the man by the
testicles and threatened him, saying, ``see these eyes
son, they are the last eyes you will see before the LVF
shoots you.''
The attack took place 24 hours after another RUC patrol
had stopped the republican and illegally photographed
him from the front of a personnel carrier as his taxi
was being searched at the junction of Rosapenna Avenue
and Oldpark Avenue. Last Saturday afternoon at the
exact spot where a black taxi driver was shot dead by
loyalists in 1991 one of the RUC members also ran a
rifle along his side and made banging noises into his
ear.
Following this on Sunday evening one RUC mobile unit
accompanied by two British army personnel carriers
tried unsuccessfully to run him off the road as he
drove along Ardoyne Avenue.
After the subsequent physical attack he managed to get
one number of the RUC member who led the abuse. This
was 13628 and he also noted the registration of the
Land Rover which tried to make him crash, EAZ 8881.
These details are now with the man's lawyer while his
passenger has agreed to go witness in any case against
the RUC.
``All this is the tip of the iceberg as far as North
Belfast is concerned,'' said Sinn Féin's Bobby Lavery.
``Unfortunately there are people who are suffering at
the hands of these British thugs in uniform who delight
in shouting LVF and UFF at people. People are afraid to
report these activities for fear of more harassment,
but it is very important for all incidents to be
catalogued to expose the collusion between these
various unionist armies.''
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