UDR morale crumbles
So much for the myth that the British Army is in the North protecting
the nationalist population! ``Who's going to defend us,'' demanded
loyalist MP, Reverend Robert Bradford, ``when the British Army is taken
out to fight the Russians?'' Bradford also called, on Tuesday, for the
official introduction of British firing squads and the re-introduction
of internment.
Speaking after an IRA landmine ambush in South Down, which destroyed
two armoured jeeps, killed three UDR soldiers and injured four others,
Bradford said morale in the loyalist UDR was at an all-time low, that
recruitment had been hit and consequently some areas in the North are
very sparsely patrolled. ``The UDR,'' he said, ``want to shoot and
encounter the enemy... sabotuers, spies, bombers and planners should
be shot... that's what war is all about.''
Last August, Bradford achieved notoriety when he said that the British
Army in an attempt to capture IRA Volunteers should have stormed
Belfast's Casement Stadium, where thousands of people attended a
`Brits Out' Rally.
Phoblacht, 12 January 1980
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