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Press Releases & Updates 2000
20th July 2000
Ploughshares To Blockade Faslane Again
UK’s Contempt for International Law Over Trident and Diego Garcia
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In a joint action with Scottish CND on 1st August Trident Ploughshares
activists will blockade Faslane naval base to take their stand against the
Trident nuclear weapons system.
MPs John McAllion and Harold Best and MEP Caroline Lucas (who was arrested
in February’s blockade of Faslane along with 184 others) will join the
blockade. They have said they are prepared to risk arrest. Also present
will be Scottish author A.L. Kennedy. She said: "Even if Trident were not
both illegal and immoral, as a weapon of mass destruction it would still
make no sense, politically, socially, economically or militarily. There
should be no place for it in modern Scotland."
A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said:
"It is pertinent to note that this week in the
High Court in London the British government is attempting to wash its hands
of any responsibility for the dirty deal with the USA in the 1960s which
saw Diego Garcia handed over to the US for an airbase, the islanders
forcibly exiled to poverty in Mauritius and all in exchange for a niggardly
discount on the price of Polaris, the Trident of its day. We recognise
international law only when it is convenient, not when it challenges our
own contempt for human life and our willingness to commit mass murder."
The blockade will begin at 7 a.m. on 1st August. Joining it will be the
group of Walkers for Peace who are on their way by foot from Aldermaston,
the Trident warhead factory in Berkshire. The blockade will be followed by
a two week disarmament camp based at Peaton Wood in Coulport.
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