Mothers stage bomb protest

Press, 20 September 1982, Page 8

Mothers stage bomb protest

NZPA Belfast Angry Catholic housewives yesterday denounced Republican guerrillas who killed two children with a homb intended for British soldiers. After the funeral of one child about 200 women from Divis Flats in west Belfast staged a protest march demanding that the guerrillas get out of their area. The Irish National Liberation Army has admitted responsibility for the bomb blast on Thursday which killed children aged 12 and 14. injured three other children, and wounded two soldiers. It said that the children, playing nearby as an Army patrol approached, were killed by mistake and apolo-

gised to their families. The I.N.L.A. is a Left-wing group which, like the larger and better-known Irish Republican Army, wages guerrilla war to break Protestantdominated Northern Ireland's ties with Britain. Led by a local Catholic priest, the Divis Flats mothers marched to the office of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, political wing of the 1.N.L.A., and nailed on the door a demand that the guerrillas stop using the sprawling apartment complex as a base. - Earlier, a car-bomb exploded outside a bar in a Northern Ireland border village, slightly injuring several people, including two policemen.