Irish police baton charged a crowd of peaceful protestors in Rossport, Co.Mayo, Ireland. The protestors are objecting to the attempt to build a high-pressure gas pipeline within blast radius of their homes. Shell and Statoil (Norwegian state company) stand to make billions from the deal negotiated with a corrupt government decades ago
5 of the local men have already been imprisoned for refusing to give an undertaking to allow Shell to build the pipeline through their lands.
A permanent solidarity camp has provided support for over a year and the tension and government pressure is ratcheting up in an attempt to break the local community.
The Irish Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell has attempted to insinuate that the protestors contain IRA/SinnFein elements.
This footage shown on RTE news on Nov 10th 2006 at midday is obviously hostile to the protestors but still cannot conceal the brutality of the police assault. It is encoded as Xvid in an avi container with the audio as mp3
A permanent solidarity camp has provided support for over a year and the tension and government pressure is ratcheting up in an attempt to break the local community.
The Irish Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell has attempted to insinuate that the protestors contain IRA/SinnFein elements.
This footage shown on RTE news on Nov 10th 2006 at midday is obviously hostile to the protestors but still cannot conceal the brutality of the police assault. It is encoded as Xvid in an avi container with the audio as mp3
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