Several British soldiers have admitted to to fixing their baton rounds with razor blades to do more damage to the protestors/rioters during Operation Banner.
"Baton rounds are doctored with bits of metal and razor blades to cause even worse injury. Uniformed patrols hang around school gates for the aggro."
- from TOM
I'm thinking that this may help to explain the high rate of serious injuries among Irish people shot by the things
Emma Groves - blinded
Richard Moore child in 1972 MOD files - also blinded
14-year old boy put into a coma in Lenadoon, 1997
Killed: Peter Doherty 36, Catholic. Michael Donelly 21 Catholic. Sean Downes 22 Catholic. Henry Duffy 45 Catholic. Seamus Duffy Catholic teenager. Thomas Friel 21 Catholic. Stephen Geddis young Catholic lad, 10. Carol Ann Kelly a lass of twelve years. Julie Livingstone a Catholic teenager. Nora McCabe 30 Catholic. Stephen McConomy Catholic 11 years of age. Peter McGuinness, 41, Catholic. Tobias Molloy Catholic teenager. Francis Rowntree, 11, Catholic. Brian Stewart a young Catholic teenager. Keight White, Irish man of twenty years and Paul Whitters, a Catholic teenager.
Some of the many victims of these rounds
I know this can be seen as a controversial topic and may come across as an attack, but my goal here is not to be inflammatory, simply to get more information from you lot: the people who served. I'm wondering if any of you here have any further information on that, and if you ever did this (put razor blades into baton rounds) or encountered it yourself? Thanks.
"Baton rounds are doctored with bits of metal and razor blades to cause even worse injury. Uniformed patrols hang around school gates for the aggro."
- from TOM
I'm thinking that this may help to explain the high rate of serious injuries among Irish people shot by the things
Emma Groves - blinded
Richard Moore child in 1972 MOD files - also blinded
14-year old boy put into a coma in Lenadoon, 1997
Killed: Peter Doherty 36, Catholic. Michael Donelly 21 Catholic. Sean Downes 22 Catholic. Henry Duffy 45 Catholic. Seamus Duffy Catholic teenager. Thomas Friel 21 Catholic. Stephen Geddis young Catholic lad, 10. Carol Ann Kelly a lass of twelve years. Julie Livingstone a Catholic teenager. Nora McCabe 30 Catholic. Stephen McConomy Catholic 11 years of age. Peter McGuinness, 41, Catholic. Tobias Molloy Catholic teenager. Francis Rowntree, 11, Catholic. Brian Stewart a young Catholic teenager. Keight White, Irish man of twenty years and Paul Whitters, a Catholic teenager.
Some of the many victims of these rounds
I know this can be seen as a controversial topic and may come across as an attack, but my goal here is not to be inflammatory, simply to get more information from you lot: the people who served. I'm wondering if any of you here have any further information on that, and if you ever did this (put razor blades into baton rounds) or encountered it yourself? Thanks.