Republican News · Thursday 23 July 1998

[An Phoblacht]

Who are real terrorists?

By Fern Lane

It is now nearly two years since the fatal shooting of Volunteer Diarmuid O'Neill by the Metropolitan Police. Every basic question about this murder remains unanswered and the British Government steadfastly refuses to hold an independent public inquiry into the killing. An inquest has yet to be held.

In the light of this, and of the killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence - whose murderers have gone free because of incompetence, racism and alleged corruption within the Metropolitan Police - the London-based Institute for Independence Studies, which has a long record of conducting independent inquiries into state criminality and which has worked for some years with the former US Attorney General on issues of state terrorism, is hosting another of its regular seminars entitled Who are the Real Terrorists? on 6 August.

The conference will hear from a number of campaigns concerned about police terrorism, including the Justice for Diarmuid O'Neill campaign and the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign. The main speakers will be John McDonnell MP and a representative of the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign.

For more information on this meeting, which takes place at 7.00pm in Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1,telephone 0171 436 4636.


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