murdered. Mrs. Norney commented: "It was obvious that after he was shot his hands were battered. They not only killed him, they attacked his dead body as well."
The murder of Leo Norney is a particularly brutal example of the increasing harassment of the anti-Unionist population by the British Army. Since the anti-internment protests of early August this has taken on an added ferocity. There have been a series of sinister shootings in Belfast involving British troops; more than a dozen homes in Belfast and Derry have been raided; and Republican News reports that the notorious interrogation and torture department at Castlereagh has been brought back into action, with more than thirty people being forced to sample its fares.
PHYSICAL ABUSE
Provocative screening operations, where people are stopped in the streets and grilled on their movements and family, have been reintroduced in nationalist areas; and the population has been subjected to general physical and verbal abuse. A young lad who crossed himаисн/пен:
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