KILLERS SULLY NAME OF REPUBLICANS
Killers sully the name of republicans
I WISH to condemn the savage slaughter of innocent men, women and children in the town of Omagh, by a recently invented group of fascists.
I look upon this outrage as an attack on the people of our country, north and south and wish to extend my sympathy to the injured and bereaved of Omagh.
This deliberate carnage was murder, not an act of war. It is an attack on each and every person on this island, that voted for peace in the recent referendum; it is an onslaught on democracy, an assault on the the Good Friday agreement, and an attack to wreck the new Assembly, to kill hope.
The people who organised and planted this latest bomb are fascists carrying out mass murder in the name of republicanism. Irish republicanism has its roots in the philosophy of the French Revolution and the manifesto of the United Irishmen, founded in Belfast in 1791 - liberty, equality, fraternity. Fascists are diametrically opposed to liberty, they outlaw fraternity and criminalise equality. These fascists have declared war on the Irish people. They have murdered and maimed the people of Omagh.
The people of this country, Protestant. Catholic and dissenter, must band together to defend democracy and peace and to outlaw and defeat those fascist murderers who dare to insult the people by using the name Republican.
PETER O'CONNOR. Waterford.
I WISH to condemn the savage slaughter of innocent men, women and children in the town of Omagh, by a recently invented group of fascists.
I look upon this outrage as an attack on the people of our country, north and south and wish to extend my sympathy to the injured and bereaved of Omagh.
This deliberate carnage was murder, not an act of war. It is an attack on each and every person on this island, that voted for peace in the recent referendum; it is an onslaught on democracy, an assault on the the Good Friday agreement, and an attack to wreck the new Assembly, to kill hope.
The people who organised and planted this latest bomb are fascists carrying out mass murder in the name of republicanism. Irish republicanism has its roots in the philosophy of the French Revolution and the manifesto of the United Irishmen, founded in Belfast in 1791 - liberty, equality, fraternity. Fascists are diametrically opposed to liberty, they outlaw fraternity and criminalise equality. These fascists have declared war on the Irish people. They have murdered and maimed the people of Omagh.
The people of this country, Protestant. Catholic and dissenter, must band together to defend democracy and peace and to outlaw and defeat those fascist murderers who dare to insult the people by using the name Republican.
PETER O'CONNOR. Waterford.
Further Information
Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/0177
Published Date: 21-Aug-98
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