Blair must implement Agreement
Tony Blair's visit to Ireland this week should have had one aim,
the implementation of the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
The only people who have taken comfort from the current impasse
have been the opponents of the Agreement, notably those Unionists
who have campaigned against it all along. With this background,
Blair's responsibility is clear. He must push for the
institutions specified in the Agreement to be set up. It is long
past the time when the Executive and the all-Ireland bodies
should have been set up.
Only when that happens can there be any hope of building
confidence in a political process. To take any other route is to
go against the terms of the Agreement.
Gather evidence on RUC
Sinn Féin this week launched an initiative to catalogue the
anti-nationalist bias of the RUC.
The discredited force has been on a charm offensive since the
signing of the Good Friday Agreement yet on the ground
intimidation and attacks on nationalists have continued. This
week again An Phoblacht reports on RUC attempts to recruit
informers, the firing of plastic bullets and attacks on
nationalists. The project will seek to gather this and any other
evidence in order to show the true face of a sectarian force.
At a time when the debate over a new policing service is at its
height and when UN reports have condemned the RUC in the
strongest terms, there is no room for allowing them to continue
their repressive ways.
All evidence should be given to Sinn Féin or to An Phoblacht. It
is time to put this force out of commission.
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