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Press Releases & Updates 2000
10th August 2000
Eleven Arrests in Nagasaki Day Actions at Nuke Bases
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Eleven Trident Ploughshares activists were arrested yesterday at the UK’s
nuclear weapons bases on the Clyde as the 55th anniversary of the dropping
of the A-bomb on Nagasaki was commemorated across the world.
At midday today five activists were arrested for blocking the road at the
north gate at Faslane. Mainly members of the Adomnan affinity group, they
had held a special service of worship at the gate. At the end of the
service they read from the Law of The Innocents promulgated by the 7th
Celtic monk Adomnan - the first clear codification of rules for the humane
conduct of war. They were Barbara Sunderland (71) from Henlow, Alan Wilkie
(68) and Maire-Colette Wilkie (58) from Edinburgh, Morag Balfour (27) from
Glenrothes and Eric Wallace (64), from Helensburgh.
This evening veteran peace campaigner Roger Franklin (73), from Stroud, was
held by MOD police after cutting a hole in the Faslane fence. Roger said: "
The people of Britain and Ireland call for the decommissioning of illegal
paramilitary weapons. We are calling for, and taking a hand in, the
decommissioning of the illegal genocidal weapons in Britain."
Late this evening Zoe Weir (24), Kreb Dragonrider, a robed druid and
practising Buddhist, Julie O’Connor, (23), and David Heller, (24),
attempted to penetrate the high security weld-mesh fence that surrounds the
Faslane base. They were arrested outside of the perimeter fence and charged
with conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.
The total of arrests at the camp now stands at 142.
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