United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets is an organization based in Belfast, Northern Ireland that opposes the use of plastic bullets by the British army and the Northern Ireland police.
Following the death of John Downes, killed by a plastic bullet fired by members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary in August 1984, the campaign was founded by Emma Groves (1920–2007), a mother of 11 children who was struck by a rubber bullet in the face in 1971 and blinded by it, and Clara Reilly. After John Downes, two more youths were killed by plastic bullets: Keith White, a 22 year-old from Portadown, in 1986 and Seamus Duffy, aged 15, from Belfast, in 1989.
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