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Many thousands of houses throughout Northern Ireland have been built almost entirely with the above shell called terralux block. Terralux block is a half inch shell of burnt clay and, according to the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints, should never have been used for house building because it conducts fire and hot gases.
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My name is Gerry Rice and I invite you to read the story of my 28 year, and ongoing, battle for justice and human rights here in Northern Ireland. "Where Silence is Golden" |
Liverpool writer Jimmy McGovern, who has written many dramas for television including "Cracker", has already read my story and said that he found it massive and intimidating but riveting. I hope that you read it and find it riveting too.
Gandhi said that injustice must be made visible. Please help to make
this injustice visible by telling your friends about it.
In 1987 I began gathering up all my many papers on this affair. I then typed out my story on an old typewriter. This task took up all my spare time over the next three years which was quite exhausting as it was done under the shadow of all our suffering. Over the next few years publishers in London, Dublin and Belfast refused to publish my story as a book.
In January 2000 I bought my first computer. I typed my story into the computer over a number of months. I felt that this story had to be told. For legal reasons I have omitted some of the story and in the chapters I have included, I have deleted some place-names. Also for legal reasons I have changed the names of many real people involved in this story to names which are not connected in any way to any living person. These changed names are in italics. I have always tried to keep within the laws of this land in which I choose to live and I continue to do so here. Nevertheless I have ended up with a criminal record and I was also made bankrupt just because I chose to do what was right in the midst of so much wrong. Both these black marks against my character were wrongfully imposed upon me by Government agencies. My home was taken off me and sold, my thriving business decimated and because I relentlessly sought my human rights and justice, people in authority here have tried, and are still trying, to make me out to be a crank.
Silence is Golden. Silence can bring peace of mind, silence can bring peace to the soul. The silence in my story however, is a totally different silence. This silence brings hurt, frustration, misery, pain, loss and much more. This silence is destructive. It is the silence that surrounds official wrong-doing, official injustice, the silence that, if not checked and dealt with by the law, becomes institutionalized violence. It is silence which is financially golden. This silence punishes the innocent in order to protect the guilty who in this case are also powerful. I refused to accept this silence, I refused to be a part of this silence, and along with my wife and our children, I have been made to pay a very heavy price for that refusal. This is our story, a story that has gone on under the cover of the Troubles for over 28 years and is still ongoing. It is one of many such stories in Northern Ireland.
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