RUC accused of harassing voters
nie Armstrong, Sinn Fein's director of elections, has slammed
RUC harassment and intimidation of voters in Nationalist areas on
polling day.
In Newry voters and the party's election workers were
photographed by the RUC as they entered a Sinn Fein tally
station.
In the lower Ormeau district of south Belfast the RUC verbally
abused people going in to cast their vote. Similar cases of
intimidation occurred in Tyrone and other areas across the north.
``I have already made a formal complaint to the Chief Electoral
Officer Pat Bradley,'' said Armstrong. ``This type of intimidation
is a very serious and worrying trend which has been allowed to
continue from election to election. It is designed to keep
nationalist voters away from the poll. I am calling on Mo Mowlam
to immediately remove the heavy and provocative RUC and British
Army patrols from nationalist areas and from the immediate
vicinity of polling stations to allow voters the freedom to
express their democratic right.''
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