No ban on plastic bullets
NIO minister Lord Dubs last week rejected calls for a
ban on the use of plastic bullets by the RUC and
British Army in the Six Counties.
Lord Dubs said, ``new guidelines that come forward will
ensure that the forces do have plastic bullets at their
disposal but they will be trained - as they are now
trained - to use them in limited circumstances.''
Despite rules that limit the use of plastic bullets to
riot situations or if the lives of crown forces are
endangered and say that they must only be fired at
waist level at a distance of over 20 metres 17 people,
mostly children, have been killed by this weapon.
Hundreds of others have been seriously wounded.
ti-plastic bullet campaigner Clara Reilly said: ``All
those killed had been hit in the head or upper body.
Over £1.5 million has been paid out in compensation to
those injured or to the families of those
murdered...yet no member of the crown forces has ever
been convicted of these crimes.''
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