Cymru 14OO

The example below is one of many that a frustrated retired police officer has written & published on the internet about Cymru 1400. 

CYMRU 1400

This group appears to have been formed in October 2001and is apparently based in Pembrokeshire. It has, in Haverford West, its own PO Box number. Despite claiming strong support in that county they refuse to go public, giving their 'wish to remain underground' as their intention to remain covert.

Their stated aims are a Welsh Republic and to defend the Welsh language and culture. [Who and what is threatening it are not really clear]!

It is one of their aims to forge links with IRA Republican terrorists if this will further their cause. One of their leading supporters is Kenneth GRIFFITH, the Welsh actor notorious for his pro-IRA views and his apparent and stated hatred of all things English and British. Interestingly, on their website is a link to the British National Party [BNP] although they deny any anti-English or anti-Black sentiments.

The name CYMRU 1400 stems from the date of the war of Owain GLYNDWR's rebel army against England.

It must be said that to date, no actions of any nature can be attributed to, or have been claimed by this group.

Despite this, this group is mentioned here due to their stated intentions of linking to terrorist groups and the support of Mr GRIFFITH [who makes no secret of his support for IRA activities]. Definitely a group worthy of monitoring.

Foreign involvment and suppliers

So, who has sourced the arms and explosives necessary to carry on these campaigns?

The FWA would seem to have purchased or have been given [sources differ] a consignment of old IRA weapons in the early to mid-1960's. Two sources are internet based Irish American Unity Newsletter says the IRA sold Welsh nationalists some old stocks of weapons in the mid-60's. Another anonymous source says the arms were given to the FWA following an ambush in which IRA terrorists killed some RUC men. The same source goes on to say that the Welsh "became scared and dumped them in a lake". This could be the arms cache I was shown during my police service. [Recovered by an underwater team from an area in the Brecon Beacons as earlier mentioned].

MAC would have most probably acquired industrial explosives from the many quarries and coal mines still active in Wales at the time during which MAC was active.

The others are believed to have made do with the enriched fertilizer type used by PIRA in its early days.

MG has used incendiary devices of varying degrees of sophistication, none of which would point to suppliers of a professional nature.

A cache of weapons was discovered near a coastal path in Pembrokeshire in the 80's, reasonably close to Fishguard, the port at which Irish ferries dock. Also in the time frame, a middle aged couple was found in the same area, shot to death. No further details on the arms find or murders have emerged and to the knowledge of the author no-one has, to the time of writing, been charged in connection with either.

Certain nationalist groups, notably CYMRU 1400, have stated openly their willingness to cooperate with any source, including Sinn Fein - IRA, to gain their ends.