Very few of these offences will ever be brought to court. This is the
only way victims can find out the truth.
Former RUC officer John Weir, jailed for sectarian murder, on the
establishment of a South African style Truth Commission for victims'
relatives.
I challenge the rector to tell me how the Orangemen, in refusing to
engage in dialogue with the elected representatives of the Garvaghy
residents and insisting on their right to march irrespective of the
wishes of the host community, are in accordance with scriptures. Does
the Biblical exhortation to ``love your neighbour as yourself'' mean
anything to the Reverend Pickering?
Letter in the Irish News on Drumcree clergymen and their attitude to
the ongoing siege. Friday 15 January.
The UN would sell them out tomorrow if they thought they'd get away
with it... [the situation] is an exact replica of what Saddam Hussein
did in Kuwait. It's just this time they decided to back the
aggressor... Do we believe in democracy? If we do believe in
democracy, we have to support those who struggle for it, not arm the
thugs who beat and brutalise those who call for it.
Tom Hyland of the Irish East Timor Campaign on the ongoing occupation
of the country by Indonesian troops. The Examiner, Monday 18 January.
There was a television programme called the Cutting Edge, and on that
programme it was said he had a wafer thin majority. I want to tell
you: that majority will go like snow off the ditch as he pursues his
way to bring about the policy of a united Ireland which is written
into the Agreement.
Ian Paisley in the Assembly this week. Irish News, Tuesday 19
January.
If you have an army, you need a use for it. The EU is ready and
willing to find a usefor our army. And within both the military and
political establishment here influential figures are already busy
preparing the ground for membership of what will be, no matter how it
is dressed up, a European Army serving a European super-state. Is
that what we want? Do you want your son, who may well be conscripted,
figthing in Bosnia under an EU flag? Or fighting in Russia in 2010?
Or God knows where in 2020?
Examiner columnist TP O'Mahoney in a column titled `It's time we
talked about decommissioning the EU'. Tuesday 19 January.
It must be that no matter who you are, whether a head of state, a
government official or a public official, you have individual,
personal responsibility in respect of a category of crimes recognised
internationally as particularly odious, such as genocide, torture,
and taking hostages. Somewhere a line has to be drawn between actions
which are the functions of a head of state, and those which are not.
Alan Jones, QC for the Spanish government in the General Pinochet
hearing in London lthis week.
The Good Friday Agreement, its institutions and propositions covering
policing, human rights and equality are critical parts of that
process. Real peace is only possible if we confront and overcome the
causes of conflict, not by running away from them.
Gerry Adams, Irish News, Wednesday 20 January.
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