ENSURING THAT JUSTICE PREVAILS
Ensuring that justice prevails
THE first anniversary of the Omagh bombing has come and gone and there is still no sign that those primarily responsible for this terrible outrage are to be arrested and brought before the courts for their heinous crimes.
Scepticism abounds that the real culprits will ever be caught and made amenable to the law and, not surprisingly, there are some people who, rightly or wrongly, take the view that political considerations in high places are stymieing the police operations.
Teams of detectives on both sides of the border have expended much time and effort in a bid to round up the main players in the breakaway IRA gang who cruelly took the lives of 29 innocent people and tore the heart out of an entire community. Their frustrations at still not being able to compile enough evidence to convict suspects whose identities they positively know was publicly manifest in the run up to the weekend memorial ceremonies.
There are undoubtedly a good number of people who could provide evidence conclusively linking the suspects to the bombing and it should be said that, by withholding information, these people are as culpable in the crime committed as those who prepared and detonated the explosives.
The RUC and the Gardai urgently require the help of anyone who has knowledge of the August 15, 1998, movements of the terror gang. Continued silence by those in the know about the bomber's itinerary will allow a dreadful deed to remain unpunished and further add to the pain and anguish of the injured and the families of those who died.
It was obvious from the weekend memorial ceremonies in Omagh that the scars from the bombing will take a long time to heal, but the agony of the injured and the relatives would be eased if the killers were found and the law was allowed to take its course.
THE first anniversary of the Omagh bombing has come and gone and there is still no sign that those primarily responsible for this terrible outrage are to be arrested and brought before the courts for their heinous crimes.
Scepticism abounds that the real culprits will ever be caught and made amenable to the law and, not surprisingly, there are some people who, rightly or wrongly, take the view that political considerations in high places are stymieing the police operations.
Teams of detectives on both sides of the border have expended much time and effort in a bid to round up the main players in the breakaway IRA gang who cruelly took the lives of 29 innocent people and tore the heart out of an entire community. Their frustrations at still not being able to compile enough evidence to convict suspects whose identities they positively know was publicly manifest in the run up to the weekend memorial ceremonies.
There are undoubtedly a good number of people who could provide evidence conclusively linking the suspects to the bombing and it should be said that, by withholding information, these people are as culpable in the crime committed as those who prepared and detonated the explosives.
The RUC and the Gardai urgently require the help of anyone who has knowledge of the August 15, 1998, movements of the terror gang. Continued silence by those in the know about the bomber's itinerary will allow a dreadful deed to remain unpunished and further add to the pain and anguish of the injured and the families of those who died.
It was obvious from the weekend memorial ceremonies in Omagh that the scars from the bombing will take a long time to heal, but the agony of the injured and the relatives would be eased if the killers were found and the law was allowed to take its course.
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Publisher: NEWS LETTER
Ref: NL/240
Published Date: 17-Aug-99
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