Dropping the Armalite
The bigwigs (bigbeards?) in the Provisional IRA have “formally ordered an end to the armed campaign…all units have been ordered to dump arms.” Let’s hope that, this time, they mean what they say.
It’s worth remembering, at this point, where the Provisionals came from and where they ended up. A de facto mandate was seized by them when Civil Rights were denied to Catholics in the late 1960s. But they bungled it: rather than defend their people, they succumbed to a harebrained ideological dream, which quickly devolved into death-worship and, more recently, a brutal criminality. The courage of the McCartney sisters reasserted the voice of a decent society too long silenced by shame, fear, and grief. The IRA’s decision may mean, at last, an end to the nightmare.
Link: IRA Statement
Posted: July 29th, 2005
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