Sectarian rhetoric
Sectarian rhetoric

On 28 July a year ago, the leadership of the Irish Republican Army formally ordered an end to its armed campaign. All IRA units were ordered to dump arms. They were directed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means. “Volunteers must not engage in any other activities whatsoever” the IRA leadership declared. The IRA also authorised its representative to engage with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) to complete the process to verifiably put its arms beyond use as quickly as possible. Two independent witnesses from the Protestant and Catholic churches were invited to testify to this.

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