Dúirt Siad i 1998
It is obvious to everyone that terror is being used against the
nationalist community in an effort to force that community to accept
less than they are entitled to at the negotiating table.
SF's Mid Ulster MP Martin McGuinness in January when eight
nationalists were killed by loyalist death squads
The nationalist nightmare - trapped in a state without our consent;
abused, victimised and killed - has not changed in 75 years, as
recent events on our streets have tragically illustrated.
SF Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin in January
[RUC Chief Constable] Ronnie Flanagan has emerged as the new
supergrass. Here is a man who is incapable of explaining how his
officers could sit by and watch as [Portadown nationalist] Robert
Hamill was kicked to death. He is incapable of answering allegations
that one of those officers was personally friendly with a number of
those involved in Robert Hamill's murder. He is incapable of
explaining how his officers allowed valuable forensic evidence
relating to the murder to be lost. Yet when it comes to the most
recent killings [of a senior loyalist and a drug dealer] he suddenly
has all the facts at this fingertips.
John Gormley of Cearta on Ronnie Flanagan's allegations of IRA
involvement in two killings which led to Sinn Féin's expulsion from
the multi-party talks in February
The RUC Inner Force - which was in turn controlled by an elite corps
of RUC officers, the Inner Circle - routinely assisted the loyalist
death squads to assassinate republicans and Catholics whom the
committee had selected for elimination.
Sean McPhilemy in his best-selling book, The Committee
The great problem was allowing the 26 Counties to secede from the
Union and from that a lot of difficulties have stemmed... The British
Isles is the natural social and economic unit.
David Trimble in Washington on St Patrick's Day
``No one else could have gotten you this far,'' thunders Big Ian.
``Stick with me. Follow my leadership and if anyone is to fall in this
battle, I'll be the first to fall.'' Then he climbs into the back seat
of his armoured Ford and his two-car cavalcade zooms off down the
mile-long road [from Stormont] and off into the night. As the crowd
left behind in the shadow of Carson's statue watches its leader's red
tail lights disappear a mile away at the exit, the realisation dawns
on them in the darkness that they face a long walk home.
Ireland on Sunday report on a Paisley rally at Stormont as the
Good Friday Agreement was being finalised
We talk about liberated zones. You liberate one zone and it is yours
and from that zone you advance. You prepare your forces to advance
and at some stage you retreat but you have safe zones to retreat to.
Negotiation is about one liberated territory that we could surge
forward from. The fact that they allowed us into the country, they
allowed our prisoners out, they legalised the ANC, they talked to us
- that was a liberated territory.
ANC Deputy Secretary General Thenjiwe Mtintso at the SF Ard Fheis
during the debate on the Good Friday Agreement
Today's decision that successful Sinn Féin candidates should
participate in the Assembly in the north is an historic one. It must
be underpinned by a strategy wedded to mobilisations, campaigning,
street activism and the international dimension.
Gerry Adams at the reconvened SF Ard Fheis on 10 May
It cleared up for the Orangemen, who finally got to parade past the
Catholic houses in a march notable not for its festive joy, but for
the frenzied, triumphalist, head-wrecking aggressiveness of the
drummers (playing with such ferocity that one shattered his drum);
the children being whipped up to roar out the Sash at the
`appropriate moment'; the sinister UVF colour party (which a police
commander claimed not to have seen); the RUC dog handler winking at
an Orangeman; and the few whooping harridans taunting residents with
their Union Jacks.
Irish Times report on an Orange march in the Whiterock area of
West Belfast in June
Croppies lie down
Banner displayed by Orangemen at Drumcree
Shame on you
Banners held by nationalists as Orangemen walk down the Ormeau Road
on 12 July following the death of the three Quinn brothers
It is clear that this small group's actions were an attack on the
peace process. Their actions were the working out of pure militarism
- a philosophy that is deeply anti-political and anti-people. They
ignored the political objective for which they claimed to be
struggling and raised military actions to an end in itself.
Phoblacht editorial following the Omagh bombing
To say there can be no executive, no institutions, no structures
unless we deliver decommissioning - that's not in the Agreement. Nor
is it something Sinn Féin can deliver.
Gerry Adams in September
The object of the exercise, as far as Sinn Féin is concerned, is to
decommission the injustices and inequalities of the past and to
decommission all the British and Irish guns
Martin McGuinness
The RUC's role since its inception, particularly over the past 30
years, places it beyond redemption in the eyes of this community. The
resentment and indeed hatred of the RUC runs long and deep in this
community leaving many scars and wounds. When the RUC was formed in
1922 it was used to underpin the northern state, was inextricably
linked to unionism, was sectarian in nature, and used its force
ruthlessly on the people of West Belfast and elsewhere to uphold the
state.
Community worker Danny Power giving his view to the Patten Commission
on Policing
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