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Thousands in
Belfast mourn
Sands' burial

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FromAPandUPI
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -
The Catholics of Belfast buried Bobby
Sands in a graveyard of Irish
nationalist heroes yesterday, to a
bagpipe's lament and a parish priest's
plea for "love . . . peace . .. an end of
violence."
But new violence flared in this blood-
stained land even as Sands, who star-
ved himself to death to become the
latest IRA martyr, was taken to his
resting place, escorted by masked Irish
Republican Army guerrillas and atten-
ded by 20,000 mourners.'}
SIX MILES FROM THE cemetery,
the strains of "God Save the Queen"
rose in the drizzling Belfast air from
3,000 Protestants gathered to honor the
victims of the underground war waged
by Sands and his comrades in the IRA's
Provisional wing.
"By a deliberate choice, he (Sands)
took his own life. Those whom we honor
today had no choice," militant
Protestant leader Rev. Ian Paisley told
the crowd, including widows of the slain
Protestant policemen, in front of
Belfast City Hall.
A cheer rang out as a young man
raised the Union Jack.
THE 27-YEAR-OLD Sands' death on
Tuesday, the 66th day of his hunger
strike at Belfast's Maze prison, brought
a new peak of tension to the 11-year-old
sectarian conflict here.
In Maze Prison where Sands died, 10
miles south of Belfast, the condition of
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three other imprisoned IRA hunger
strikers continued to deteriorate.
Another 100 convicts said they were
ready to embark on a mass fast to seek
special status as political prisoners, the
cause for which Sands took his life.
Look for an analysis of the
conflicts in Northern Ireland in
tomorrow's Daily. University
Prof. Leo McNamara, an ex-
pert in Irish history, and
Business Administration in-
structor Mary Bromage,
author of three books on
Ireland, will provide insight in-
to Ireland's turbulent situation.
A statement issued by the prisoners'
support committee said, "There are
many Bobby Sands in these blocks and
we will continue to die on hunger strike
if need be in order to safeguard those
principles."
The guerrillas of the largely Roman
Catholic IRA are fighting to end British
control of this Protestant-dominated
province and unite it with the Catholic
Irish republic to the south. Almost 2,100
people have been killed since 1969.
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