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Press Releases & Updates 2000
12th November 2000
East Anglians Arrested in Remembrance Day Action at Nuclear Weapons Factory
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Four East Anglian Trident Ploughshares activists were this morning arrested
after cutting their way through the fence at Atomic Weapons Establishment
Aldermaston, where UK nuclear weapons are manufactured and maintained. They
were attempting to carry out a citizens inspection of the base, to
determine for the public what goes on there, especially to investigate the
illegal and life-threatening development of new forms of Trident warheads.
Barbara Sunderland, Davida Higgin, and Peter Lanyon (all retired school
teachers), and Simone Chimowitz; from East Anglia, carried with them
statements of intent, stating that:
"We are doing this on Remembrance Day because the existence of Atomic
Weapons establishment Aldermaston makes a mockery of the mourning for all
those killed in wars and the hopes for peace being expressed today."
Meanwhile, two activists sat on top of fence posts, trying to climb into
the base. Colin (20, a student of Environmental Earth Sciences at
the University of East Anglia in Norwich) and Martha Scott (also from
Norwich) said from their perches on top of the perimeter fence:
"We are here on Remembrance day to remember the dead of all wars, and to
try actively to prevent the British Government from manufacturing illegal
weapons of mass destruction, planning genocide and future wars. We must
work towards peace in the future."
Trident Ploughshares activists are gathering at Aldermaston this weekend
for disarmament actions against the establishment there which makes
plutonium "pits" (bomb cores) for Trident warheads. The Aldermaston camp
comes hot on the heels of the highly successful action at RAF Wittering in
Cambridgeshire last week, when TP activists Susan van der Hijden and Martin
Newell put out of action one of the trucks which carries Trident nuclear
warheads to Coulport in Scotland, causing an estimated £32000 worth of
damage. The pair have been remanded in jail until their trial.
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