punishment beatings

Non-life-threatening injuries and the scandal of shooting children…

Jim Deeds on July 15, 2017, 11:59 am

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I couldn’t sleep last Thursday night. I live in West Belfast and there was a helicopter hovering right above our house. The noise always reminds me of older times when military helicopters were so common that we almost didn’t hear them anymore. Yes, times have changed…. Except, it seems that I was not the only one not sleeping that night. Around 11 pm a child (we still recognise those under 18 as children, right?) was taken up a side street …

Crime and punishment (beatings)…

Soapbox on February 18, 2017, 10:19 pm

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It was a hellish scene. The shaky video taken on someone’s phone showed a stolen car speeding up and down the Falls Road, doing hand brake turns at brake neck speed. Tyres and onlookers squealed; smoke filled the air. Terrified road users attempted to make it by without getting written off and pedestrians fled from the area. Just as the video came to an abrupt end, the sound of shots could be heard ringing out above the sound of the …

Report reveals a long post conflict history of Loyalist and Republican abuse of children…

Mick Fealty on November 10, 2014, 7:34 pm

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Off The Record NI picked up on Lawrence Liam Kennedy’s report which highlights the extent of paramilitary ‘abuse’ of children… Between 1990 and 2013: 94 children were shot by loyalist paramilitaries. 73 children were shot by republican paramilitaries. 166 children were beaten – some badly mutilated – by loyalist paramilitaries. 178 children were beaten by Republican paramilitaries. In total, more than 500 children abused by the IRA, UVF, UDA etc. As Jason Murdoch notes: There is little doubt that paramilitary …

Baggott: Fear within communities retards convictions for punishment beatings and shootings…

Mick Fealty on April 20, 2012, 12:48 pm

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Matt Baggott on Nolan says that more and more people are turning to the PSNI to give information. He also notes (before getting abruptly cut off in the audioboo edit) the sheer organisation of local paramilitary regimes handing out sentences as though they were part of some local, unofficial judiciary. As the CC himself notes it is the fear within communities, and “the obscenity in a European democracy of a father taking his child to be shot by appointment”. listen …