BOMBERS EARN OUR REVULSION
Bombers earn our revulsion
Three years after the Omagh area buried 31 one of its people following the outrage that was the carnival day bomb, the legacy of that heinous act has not diminished for the bereaved families or those maimed and injured.
Earlier this week, hundreds of people paid tribute to those lives destroyed by a vicious group which exists only to promulgate hatred and division. Yet those who carried out the deed have never been brought to justice.
The unbearable knowledge for the bereaved families that those who destroyed their loved ones may never be caught by police, forced some of the families to take legal action of their own. Who knows where that action may lead? Certainly no one could begrudge the bereaved families any vestige of justice.
However, there are people in Ireland who have the knowledge and evidence which could put those responsible in prison. Though they may have their concerns about co-operating with the RUC, they could pass that information to the Gardai or indeed Interpol.
The Real IRA and the other quasi-political zealots who who imagine in their mad minds that they are liberators do not represent even a tiny fraction of the nationalist people of Ireland. They shame this country by calling themselves Irish.
By rejecting the wishes of this nation they have made themselves nationless. They are interlopers serving no interest but their own. They are the past and everything that was bad about that past. No words will heal the broken hearts of families in Omagh and its environs, Buncrana and Madrid, nor the thousands of families who had loved ones killed in the Troubles, but they should know that the peaceful and good people of this island share their grief and mourn with them.
Nothing will return the sons, daughters, fathers, brothers, sisters and mothers to the bereaved, but if those entrusted to deliver lasting peace live up to all that is required of them perhaps they may take some comfort from that.
The importance of forging ahead with the peace process seems to have been lost these past few weeks. Perhaps the third anniversary of Omagh's most tragic moment will remind people of the need to find a way through the present impasse.
Three years after the Omagh area buried 31 one of its people following the outrage that was the carnival day bomb, the legacy of that heinous act has not diminished for the bereaved families or those maimed and injured.
Earlier this week, hundreds of people paid tribute to those lives destroyed by a vicious group which exists only to promulgate hatred and division. Yet those who carried out the deed have never been brought to justice.
The unbearable knowledge for the bereaved families that those who destroyed their loved ones may never be caught by police, forced some of the families to take legal action of their own. Who knows where that action may lead? Certainly no one could begrudge the bereaved families any vestige of justice.
However, there are people in Ireland who have the knowledge and evidence which could put those responsible in prison. Though they may have their concerns about co-operating with the RUC, they could pass that information to the Gardai or indeed Interpol.
The Real IRA and the other quasi-political zealots who who imagine in their mad minds that they are liberators do not represent even a tiny fraction of the nationalist people of Ireland. They shame this country by calling themselves Irish.
By rejecting the wishes of this nation they have made themselves nationless. They are interlopers serving no interest but their own. They are the past and everything that was bad about that past. No words will heal the broken hearts of families in Omagh and its environs, Buncrana and Madrid, nor the thousands of families who had loved ones killed in the Troubles, but they should know that the peaceful and good people of this island share their grief and mourn with them.
Nothing will return the sons, daughters, fathers, brothers, sisters and mothers to the bereaved, but if those entrusted to deliver lasting peace live up to all that is required of them perhaps they may take some comfort from that.
The importance of forging ahead with the peace process seems to have been lost these past few weeks. Perhaps the third anniversary of Omagh's most tragic moment will remind people of the need to find a way through the present impasse.
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Publisher: ULSTER HERALD
Ref: UH/0808
Published Date: 16-Aug-01
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