Declan Walsh
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486 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jul
Declan Walsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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who didn't believe his explanations about why this was an incredibly unsafe thing to do.
And so the day before, they had stormed into the hospital compound, and the director told me he had been chased through the compound with people throwing rocks at him.
And in fact, parked outside his office, I could see his vehicle, which had a hole in one of the windows where he said people threw rocks that didn't hit him, but they hit his car.
They are literally attacking him in order to get this body.
They refused.
And then he said that the security forces were called to try and bring peace.
Then we turn up the next day.
Then that evening, we went back to our hotel in the town.
And just as we were settling in after dark, we hear these gunshots going off.
And it turns out that a crowd of over 100 young men, again, supporters of this cleric, had converged on the hospital yet again in an effort to spring out this body.
My God.
The police and the soldiers were firing their weapons in the air to try and disperse them.
Then this crowd of people went around the back of the hospital, tried to attack it from another side.
And this running battle went on for five hours, all through the evening.
Until 11 o'clock at night, when the police finally got the situation under control.
And then the next morning, after careful negotiation with the church authorities, the body was escorted by a line of soldiers from the hospital down to the local cemetery where it was safely buried.
Well, I would say this incident was exceptional because it involved this very prominent local figure who had a huge following.
But the dynamic, unfortunately, is very common because across the city, red cross workers who were trying to carry out these what they call safe burials of these bodies.
In other words, instead of allowing a lot of people to come and touch the body, the body will typically be disinfected.
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