Magee Student´s Oppose British War Machine Recruitment on Campus

The Sinn Féin Society at the University of Ulster held a peaceful protest today (Thursday 16th October )to highlight their disappointment at the University's decision to again invite the British Armed Forces to the careers fair.


Adrian Kelly, spokesperson for the Magee society said,

"We are shocked at the University's decision to again invite the British Armed Forces onto Campus, particularly as this is the 3rd consecutive year their presence has been protested by the students. Their brutal involvement in Ireland, in particular carrying out the mass murder in Derry on Bloody Sunday, is just one of the reasons so many students are angry. This is to say nothing of the atrocities that are still happening on a daily basis in Afghanistan and Iraq."

"We also object to the way careers in the British Armed Forces are glamorised in advertisements and the media and portrayed as exciting to young people. The reality is that these young people are recruited to be used as canon fodder in illegal wars abroad."