THE MEMORIES OF ALL LOST LOVED ONES LIVE ON
Four years after the Omagh bomb, the memories of all the lost live on
IT IS four years since Omagh was bombed to the centre stage of world affairs, albeit briefly. However, while the attention of the world's press and broadcasters has long since moved on to new disasters, the tragedy of Omagh continues to haunt hundreds of families in this district who had their loved ones killed or maimed.
Those who perpetrated the act have neither been brought to justice nor has their ceasefire, announced after the atrocity, been honoured.
And while the images of the people murdered may have faded from the mind of the wider world, and the case of justice for Omagh may have become tiresome for the authorities, what happened on August 15th 1998 will remain the greatest calamity ever to have touched this town.
The questions' remain, why was Omagh bombed? Why did a small group of fanatics working without either love of the nation or concern for human life do this to Omagh?
It was so obviously an act of hatred carried out by embittered, black-hearted renegades who did not hope to rid Ireland of British rule but who hoped to teach mainstream republicanism that they were not to be trifled with.
The anti-Irish, anti-peace, anti-human Real IRA succeeded at getting the attention they craved over the bodies of women and children, fathers and mothers, infants and babies not yet born.
Did those what carried out this atrocity or those who have given them political succour ever stop to think of those lives they extinguished, did they think what love there may have been in the parents, what trust in the children, and what hopes and dreams may have lived in the hearts of the young?
IT IS four years since Omagh was bombed to the centre stage of world affairs, albeit briefly. However, while the attention of the world's press and broadcasters has long since moved on to new disasters, the tragedy of Omagh continues to haunt hundreds of families in this district who had their loved ones killed or maimed.
Those who perpetrated the act have neither been brought to justice nor has their ceasefire, announced after the atrocity, been honoured.
And while the images of the people murdered may have faded from the mind of the wider world, and the case of justice for Omagh may have become tiresome for the authorities, what happened on August 15th 1998 will remain the greatest calamity ever to have touched this town.
The questions' remain, why was Omagh bombed? Why did a small group of fanatics working without either love of the nation or concern for human life do this to Omagh?
It was so obviously an act of hatred carried out by embittered, black-hearted renegades who did not hope to rid Ireland of British rule but who hoped to teach mainstream republicanism that they were not to be trifled with.
The anti-Irish, anti-peace, anti-human Real IRA succeeded at getting the attention they craved over the bodies of women and children, fathers and mothers, infants and babies not yet born.
Did those what carried out this atrocity or those who have given them political succour ever stop to think of those lives they extinguished, did they think what love there may have been in the parents, what trust in the children, and what hopes and dreams may have lived in the hearts of the young?
Further Information
Publisher: ULSTER HERALD
Ref: UH/1049
Published Date: 15-Aug-02
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