Republican News · Thursday 6 February 1997
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US slam RUC
Eoin O'Broin
A US government report has slammed the RUC for its conduct during the 1996 seige of Drumcree. An official State Department report on human rights around the world claimed the decision to allow the Orange Order to march at Drumcree ``damaged the RUC's reputation as an impartial police force''. It went on to say, ``many observers on both sides of the community perceived the government's reversal in the face of unlawful unionist protests as a victory of might over the rule of law''.
The report is also critical of the use of plastic bullets in crowd control, a practice ``widely criticised by human rights monitors and the UN Committee Against Torture''.
Other topics covered in the document were employment discrimination, RUC harassment, and improper treatment and torture in holding centres such as Castlereagh.
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