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Emma Groves
Emma Groves (1920 – 2 April 2007) was a Human rights activist and a leading campaigner for banning the use of plastic bullets and a co-founder of the United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets in Northern Ireland.〔(Emma Groves ) 〕 She began her campaign after she was blinded from being struck in the face by a rubber bullet in 1971.
==Shooting incident==
Emma Groves was a Belfast mother of 11 children. At 9 a.m. on 4 November 1971, aged 51, she was standing at her living room window during British Army searches on her neighbours' houses. As a mark of defiance Emma turned on her record player and placed the ballad "Four Green Fields" on her record player and turned up the volume.〔(Congressional Briefing Paper, April 1993 - ''The Use of Plastic Bullets in Northern Ireland'' ) 〕
As she turned back to the window, a soldier, at a distance of about eight yards,〔 shot a rubber bullet through the window hitting her in the face. As a result, she lost her sight in both eyes. A doctor at the hospital who was removing Emma's eyes approached Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who was visiting Belfast at the time, to break the news to Emma that her eyesight was gone.〔(Blinded plastic bullet campaigner dies ) 〕〔 Years later, she was offered £35,000 compensation, which was seen at the time as a ''de facto'' admission by the Army, although the soldier involved was never charged.〔
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