Blair, RUC and British Army criticised by Peacewatch
Peacewatch Ireland, a US based human rights organisation who have
worked to ``support the pursuit of peace with justice in Ireland''
since 1994 released it's report on the 1998 marching season lasting
week.
Observers from Peacewatch have been sending observers to the Garvaghy
Road for the past three years. Their report titled ``The Siege That
Never Ended'' concludes that the rights of the Garvaghy Road
neighbourhood have been violated.
Peacewatch found that Tony Blair's intervention in the crisis
undermined the Parades Commission and conveyed a double message''
about the gravity and enforceability of that decision''. The British
Army and the RUC also came in for criticism from Peacewatch. They
concluded that the British Army demonstrated radically different
policing strategies for the loyalist and nationalist communities.
The nationalist community was constrained while no limits were set on
``illegal Orange marches, the Drumcree encampment, or loyalist
blockades''.
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