Omagh policing board incites riot

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday May 22, 2003 23:11 by exodus

Omagh policing board incited a near riot yesterday, after refusing to answer questions from members of the public about collusion, RUC human rights abuses and continued brutality, and the RUC ignoring warnings of informant Kevin fulton about the Omagh bomb.

Uproar ensued in at the public meeting as members of the public's queries were ignored by the policing board who refused to answer their concerns. The policing board decided to carry on the meeting amongst themselves, resulting in members of the public protesting by drowning them in a barrage of chants. The policing board was set up to put a superficial front on the renamed RUC, in an attempt to whitewash RUC past misdemeanours and make the RUC look like they are now a reformed, accountable police force. In the future the policing board will be meeting in private amongst their exclusive selves, to share tittle tattle about petty crime whilst ignoring serious crime issues such as sectarian murder, RUC collusion with paramilitaries and the continued illegal security force intelligence covert war against the people of northern ireland.