Orange responsibility for murder
By Mary Nelis
There was something innately evil about the death of 16 year old
James Morgan. It was not just the fact that he had been battered
and his body burned. It was the manner in which those who carried
out the deed then disposed of the body of the terrified
youngster.
They used a mechanical digger to dump his body in a pit,
partially filled with the remains of dead animals. The killers
removed the rotting dead animals from the pit and after James's
body was thrown in, the corpses of the animals were placed on
top.
The handling of the investigation by the RUC and their reluctance
to describe the murder as sectarian, again raises questions of
RUC collusion in recent sectarian murders. One could conclude
that the initial response by the RUC, who knew James was missing
from Friday, gave the killers ample time to go to ground.
We are told that detectives want to interview members of the
Loyalist Volunteer Force, who may have been behind the killing.
Perhaps they should have taken a closer look at the Orange
parade, which despite calls from nationalist residents still
marched through Newcastle on the day of James's funeral. Perhaps
they should have looked at the ``kick the pope'' bandsmen, since
kicking fenian heads seems to be part of the culture of
Orangeism.
We should not be surprised that the person arrested and charged
with the killing is lodged in the Loyalist Volunteer Force wing
in Long Kesh. Nor should we be surprised that there were no house
searches, no kicking down doors, no wholesale arrests of suspects
in the protestant communities, around Castlewellan or in Aghalee,
after the brutal murder of James and the equally brutal murder of
18 year old Bernadette Martin.
Why should nationalists have any faith in the RUC investigations
into the almost 500 sectarian murders of Catholics, when there is
so much evidence accumulated over the years of RUC complicity in
such killings? The King Rat cartoon painted on the door of an RUC
Land Rover passing through the village of Dunloy last month spoke
volumes to the Nationalist community living there. While the RUC
may dismiss any claims that the cartoon referred to Billy Wright,
nicknamed King Rat, and leader of the LVF, no one in Dunloy is
likely to believe them, particularly after that other loyalist
group, the UDA, in an article in its magazine, Combat stated that
the putrid, stinking, republican boil, Dunloy, should be lanced.
The terminology of such articles, which describes nationalist
communities as cesspits besmirching Protestant counties, and
advocating ``raw, naked violence as a weapon in a Bosnian style
ethnic cleansing of Ulster'' reflects a deep rooted sectarianism
and bigotry, which views Catholics as less than human and
therefore to be disposed of like animals. Such thinking produces
people like the Shankhill Butchers, the George Seawrights, the
Lenny Murphys, the Michael Stones and the King Rats, and it
produces the death and disposal of a young Catholic man in a most
inhuman manner. What all these people have in common, apart from
their hatred of Catholics, is the Orange Order and the flute
bands. It is well recorded that Orange Halls were used as
recruiting offices for the UVF.
It is no accident that the latest wave of sectarian murders
coincides with the marching season. We should not be misled into
believing that the Orange Order is a cultural organisation, a
million miles away from any responsibility for the deaths of Sean
Browne, Michael McGoldrick, Robert Hamill, Bernadette Martin and
James Morgan.
Those of us who listen to the Orangemen marching down the streets
of Dunloy, Bellaghy, the Lower Ormeau or Derry Walls, have heard
the screams of ``kill all fenian bastards and fuck the Pope''.
These marches, which purposely have been routed through Catholic
areas, are symbolic of a dog marking its territory. They have
nothing to do with folklore, or protestant heritage or even the
Battle of the Boyne. Their message is deeply sectarian and anti
Catholic. Those who try to be their mouthpieces because they
refuse to negotiate directly with residents groups, would do well
to remember that the Orange Order is a terrorist organisation, in
the true meaning of the term. They cannot and will not talk to
the nationalist community in the 6 counties, whose right to exist
as equals in this society they have never conceded.
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