Upsurge in Loyalist attacks
Castleward Sinn Fein councillor Danny Lavery, has hit out at the
Loyalists responsible for Friday night's pipe-bomb attack on Bridie
Smith in the Graymount area of Greencastle.
He said: ``On Friday night a device exploded in the back garden of a
house in Graymount Parade. We have also recieived local reports of
two similar incidents involving similar devices in the last ten days.
Local people have reported them to the RUC and I call on the RUC to
confirm the incidents.''
``These,'' he added, ``are only the latest in a long series of sectarian
attqacks in this area, and while Bridie Smith was a resident of the
area for nearly 35 years, they are clearly aimed at driving out the
remaining Catholic families from this previously mixed area. The RUC
have described the device used on Friday night as primitive, but
regardless of such distinctions, these bombs can cause serious injury
and possible death. These attacks amount to sustained intimidation on
this estate.''
The Sinn Fein councillor also urged Loyalist politicians To ``act to
defuse the tension in the area and use their public office to get
this campaign halted''.
``Loyalist violence is occuring on an almost daily basis across the
north and Nationalists see it as being clearly aimed at exploiting
the curreny difficulties in the peace process caused by the Unionist
fear of the changes that this process is bringing,'' added the
councillor.
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