I.R.A. says it will fight on until troops go
NZPA Belfast The Irish Republican Army has given a warning that its bloody campaign will continue until British troops were pulled out of Northern Ireland.
Soldiers looked on during an Easter rally at Crosmaglen, south Armagh, as a masked man in a battledress called on parents of men serving in the province to summon them home before they were sent back dead.
The demonstrators heard a statement from the I.R.A. "army council," which said the campaign would go on until the British withdrew.
The rally was one of many demonstrations throughout the province to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
The Army and police were on full alert for the traditional parades. They manned checkpoints on rally routes and watched from the fringes. Helicopters flew overhead as the marchers, many in paramilitary dress and wearing masks and dark glasses, paraded with Republican flags. In Belfast, the Falls Road parade drew thousands of spectators, including about
50 young revolutionaries from Britian, members of the Irish Freedom Movement which supports I.R.A. methods, including mainland bombing. .In Armagh about 300 people took part in two parades, one at St Patrick’s cemetery, the other at a graveyard about a kilometre away.
A police spokesman said all the parades had passed off peacefully. Army bomb disposal experts carried out two controlled explosions at Milltown cemetery, off the Falls Road, where hundreds of people had gathered for the rally. There was no immediate official explanation. The Provisional Sinn Fein claimed that three suspect packages were found hidden in a flowerbed close to a plaque erected in memory of 10 hunger strikers who starved themselves to death at the Maze Prison last year. A spokesman for the Provisional Sinn Fein said a detonator on one of the packages exploded but no-one was hurt.
During parades in Londonderry petrol bombs were thrown at security forces, but no-one was injured.
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