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Nod for London police to use rubber bullets on student protesters
Wednesday November 09, 2011 12:41:31 AM,
IANS
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London: Students
protesting in central London Wednesday over hiked university fees
run the risk of getting shot at by rubber bullets, the police said
Tuesday.
A police spokesman told Xinhua that rubber bullets and armoured
cars are in readiness, and will be used "only in the most extreme
circumstances." Another 4,000 officers will be on duty to police
the demonstration.
The students are set to march from the university area around
Bloomsbury to the financial area around Moorgate, covering about
four km, in protest at increased university tuition fees and
government budget cuts.
If the Metropolitan Police (The Met), London's police force, uses
the rubber bullets, it will be the first time on the British
mainland for dealing with riots.
The Met had authorisation to use rubber bullets during the
widespread rioting of Aug 6-9, after losing control of parts of
London and other cities in England, but did not use them.
Rubber bullets have been used frequently by police and the British
army in Northern Ireland since the early 1970s, and have been a
controversial weapon for crowd control, cited by the British
Journal of Surgery as the cause of death of at least one protester
up to 1975 and causing disability or deformity in 17 others.
Despite changes in manufacturing rubber bullets over the years,
the British medical magazine The Lancet published a report in 2001
linking them to the deaths of three Palestinian protesters at the
hands of the Israeli security forces in early October 2000.
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