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An Phoblacht: British sop to DUP as Orange mobs rampage
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| Last Edited | Some say... Jun 30, 2005 06:51am |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The past week has witnessed worrying and frustrating developments in the North. The start of the Orange marching season has been marked by an orgy of violence directed at the nationalist community.
The attacks have been made possible by the stance of the Orange Order in attempting to force the issue of parading through nationalist communities and denying the need for dialogue with residents. The Order has been backed to the hilt in all of this by the DUP.
What is of most serious concern has been the willingness of the British Government to accommodate the worst excesses of Orange and unionist intransigence, with the outrageous and totally unjust arrest of Belfast republican Seán Kelly.
Kelly has been a well-known and positive force in preventing interface violence in North Belfast. His re-arrest was a blatant sop to the DUP, who had briefed that Secretary of State Peter Hain was too pro-republican. It is also seriously politically foolish, taking place as it does during a very serious and sensitive process of internal debate within the IRA.
Sinn Féin MP Conor Murphy said Kelly's re-arrest might deter republicans from going out on the streets to try and quell law and order situations but dismissed the idea that it would impact on the IRA's current process of internal debate. "Those behind the arrest will probably hope that happens," said Murphy but the IRA is a "much more mature" organisation than that". |
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