IRSP Deny Tit for Tat Allegations

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday July 30, 2002 11:48 by John McKeague - deadloyalistsclub 666 at pandemonium dot com Hell

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."