IRSP Deny Tit for Tat Allegations
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Tuesday July 30, 2002 11:48
by John McKeague - deadloyalistsclub
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The INLA have denied claims that their ceasefire is on the verge of collapse, saying speculation is nothing more than a distraction from the ongoing loyalist murder campaign.
IRSP Deny Tit for Tat Allegations
26 July 2002
IRSP Deny Tit for Tat Allegations
The INLA have denied claims that their ceasefire is on the verge of collapse, saying speculation is nothing more than a distraction from
the ongoing loyalist murder campaign.
Spokesperson for the IRSP Paul Little reacted angrily to claims that the INLA are involved in a tit-for-tat campaign with loyalists in the
area saying: "Loyalists are being allowed to attack homes for hours on end, with police and military personnel standing idly by.
"There is no tit-for-tat. There is no ethnic cleansing of Protestants, the PSNI/RUC are not the meat between the sandwich. They are the protagonists, along with the loyalists, against the nationalist community."
The Falls Road offices of the IRSP were evacuated on Monday after the PSNI claimed to have received a telephone bomb warning.
Nothing was found at the Costello House offices, which also house the Teach na Failte ex-prisoners group.
Paul Little added: "The bomb warning was a blatant attempt to distract people's attention from the ongoing loyalist pogrom in North
Belfast, resulting in many injuries and the murder of 19-year-old Gerard Lawlor.
"Is it not ironic that working class communities who suffered so much during the war are the same people suffering during the so-called peace.
"Who really is benefiting from the political process?" he asked.
"The IRSP were always critical of the Good Friday Agreement, and the events of the last week have shown that that it is not a peace process in any shape or form. There is no peace process."
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Mature, reasonable people everywhere accept that both Nationalists and Unionists have a right to their respective identies and to their security within those identies.
Everybody should stand up to the thuggish and violent element of both communities.
The key division in the six counties is not between Unionist and Nationalist - it's between the violent and the nonviolent.
Peace
try being peaceful when a loyalist mob is trying to burn you out. see how far that gets you.
the violence of the oppressed is different to that of the oppressor.
the republican people of the north will not allow themselves to be ethnically cleansed.
over the last 14 weeks there have been over 400 loyalist attacks on republican & nationalist areas.
I am almost speechless that I almost agree with a statement of the IRSP, the peace process has meant little to ordinary working people in both communities. They still suffer from appalling housing, low pay and the privatisation of services, the politicans on both sides have got large pay checks, liberal expenses and in return have helped to cement division, not combat it.
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