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A dummy pipe-bomb was also left at the plot, which was was the scene of a slaughter in 1988 when the lone loyalist gunman, Michael Stone, attacked mourners at the funeral of three IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar. Their graves and the graves of the mourners who died that day were also vandalised.
The headstone of Bobby Sands, who was the first of 10 Republican prisoners to die on hunger strike in 1981, was smashed into three.
The dead have often been targets throughout the Troubles, and there have been more attacks on graveyards since the ceasefires.
Angelique Chrisafis/Guardian UK Jan.13.04
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Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands
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George Jackson, Soledad Brother
Angela Davis
George Jackson by Bob Dylan
