The Hammer Blow, East Timor, Andrea Needham, book Kickstarter‘With our government aiding and abetting genocide, what else could we do but disarm the weapons ourselves?’

In January 1996, three women broke into a British Aerospace factory in Lancashire and used household hammers to disarm a Hawk warplane bound for Indonesia.

They were arrested, charged with £2.4m of criminal damage, and sent to prison to await trial.

A week later, a fourth woman joined them, accused of conspiracy.

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