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THE last two cars out of at least eight seized by British colonial police from nationalists in Fermanagh in mid-December were returned to their owners during the last week of February.They were taken following an attack on a British Customs and Excise facility in Enniskillen on December 16 which badly damaged the building. The Continuity IRA was believed to be responsible.
The excuse for the seizure of the cars was that the RUC/PSNI wanted to examine them forensically. Such would hardly take two-and-a-half months. The action was nothing short of harassment of members of the nationalist community.
The seizures, which occurred on December 21 last, and the failure to return the two vehicles for ten weeks, have been condemned by a spokesperson for Republican Sinn Féin who described the operation as “a cynical exercise in the ongoing harassment of those who are opposed to the British presence in Ireland.
“It is strange times indeed to see the politicians of ‘pan-nationalism’ prevailing upon the people to accept British rule in Ireland while endeavouring to recruit young men and women into the British Crown Forces to defend British colonialism.
“Is it any wonder that the British should use this confusion in the community to intimidate and terrorise those who continue to stand opposed to the British occupation of our country?”
He called on the people of the Six Counties to focus their efforts on the attainment of an All-Ireland democracy and to abandon those who had failed to negotiate a creditable or sustainable outcome to the National Question.
Meanwhile a group of nationalist youths numbering about 60, who were protesting outside a British courthouse in Coalisland, Co Tyrone on February 20 when four Tyrone men were charged with possession of arms were brutally attacked by the same British forces in riot gear.
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