Eight of them were children and one was a woman. Hundreds of people have been seriously injured. There has been widespread indiscriminate use of them and they have been used in non-riot situations. Despite two international tribunals of enquiry into the deaths and injuries caused by them, 3–4 August 1981 and 16 October 1982, organised by the Association for Legal Justice, they are still in use in Northern Ireland. All the fatal casualties except one have been Catholics. Their deadly misuse has been chronicled in British army Terror: Brian Stewart (by Brian Brady, Denis Faul, Raymond Murray, 1976), Rubber & Plastic Bullets Kill & Maim (Denis Faul, Raymond Murray, 1981), Plastic Bullets – Plastic Government (Denis Faul, Raymond Murray, 1982), They Shoot Children (Liz Curtis, Information on Ireland, 1982), and A Report on the Misuse of the Baton Round in the North of Ireland (Submission by the United Campaign against Plastic Bullets to the Mitchell Commission, 1996). Stephen McConomy On 16 April 1982, the sun was shining in Derry.
