Thatcher's latest victim
Life came to an end for a young British soldier in Belfast on Tuesday
night. He died in a war that was not of his making, in a country he
probably knew little about apart from what his superiors told him.
But he dies as soldiers who take up the gun to oppress the people of
another country will inevitably die.
Private Nicholas Peacock came from Grantham in Lincolnshire. Another
person comes from that English town, a person who is an enthusiastic
supporter of violence and terrorism in Ireland. That individual was
safe in her bed when the 20-year-old soldier became the latest
stastistic in her Irish war. Yet that person and the government of
which she is head bears more responsibility for the deaths of British
soldiers and RUC members, IRA Volunteers and Irish and British
civilians than anyone in Britain or Ireland.
The soldier from Lincolnshire was killed in an IRA ambush far away
from his home. The IRA soldiers who attacked his patrol were fighting
in their own city, in defence of their own homes and communities. But
for the political masters who sent Private Peacock and thousands of
others like him to defend the interests of a foreign government in
Ireland there would be no more deaths like that on Tuesday night or
the death on the previous Friday of RUC man Stephen Montgomery.
Phoblacht 2 February 1989
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