Public anger against killings
Last Sunday over 1000 people showed their support for
families bereaved in the current loyalist murder
campaign and challenged the ``British government and
unionist and loyalist people'' to stop the killings. The
impromptu vigil in Dunville Park on the Falls Road in
Belfast was organised by a wide consortium of community
groups who spoke of the pain and anger of the
nationalist community.
Hours earlier Catholic taxi driver John McColgan had
become the latest victim of the brutality inflicted on
nationalists across the Six Counties.
The crowd, both young and old, heard community worker
Maura McCrory say, ``words cannot express how we feel''
and ``we will not be intimidated.'' She then turned
directly on the media to denounce their lack of
understanding in describing the recent onslaught
against Catholics as `tit-for-tat' or `retaliation'.
She said: ``the loyalist violence against the Catholic
community has been in place since 1922.''
Community worker Liz Groves said, ``this murder campaign
is designed to terrorise our community into accepting a
return to Stormont. The nature of these attacks and the
hatred of Catholics should not determine our political
future.''
Homemade banners echoed the sadness of the community at
these murders and demonstrated the depth of anger at
the distorted portrayal of the current campaign. The
sentiment of the crowd was strong and dignified and
much of the anger was directed at the British
government's lack of will to tackle the death squads.
They was also anger at the attitude of the Unionists in
the talks.
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