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Sinn Féin supports conflict resolution in the Basque Country
>>>>15.07.2010: Gerry Adams calls for release of Arnaldo Otegi
>>>> 17.06.2010: Danny Morrison's oration at Seando Moore's funeral (e)
Derry, June 15, 2010: Bloody Sunday report of Lord Saville is finally published
>>>> 15.06.2010: INNOCENT - statement of the families >>
>>>> 29.03.2010, Brussels: Nobel Peace Laureates support conflict resolution in the Basque Country
Four Nobel Peace Laureates, the South-African bishop Desmond Tutu as well as John Hume, long time leader of the SDLP
in the North of Ireland, President of Ireland Mary Robinson, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and other international
leading figures declare their support for the peace- and conflict resolution initiative of the
Basque left wing independence movement. ...
>>>> 13.03.2010: Impressions from Sinn Féin's Ard Fheis (party conference) in Dublin
>>>> 06.03.2010: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams: "Make Change Possible"
>>>> 05.03.2010: Gerry Kelly, Sinn Féin: "Nothing is impossible in struggle"
>>>> 06.03.2010: Kattalin Madariaga, Basque Abertzale Left: "A message from Arnaldo Otegi"
>>>> 05.03.2010: Bairbre De Brun, Sinn Féin: "Solidarity with the people of Palestine"
North of Ireland: Declan Kearney, Sinn Féin National Chairperson analyses the Hillsborough Castle Agreement,
which was signed on February 5, 2010 and ended the severe political crisis in the six counties:
>>>> 18.02.2010: "A game changer at Hillsborough"
North of Ireland, crisis in the peace process:
>>>> 23.01.2010: Statement from Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams:
Equality and partnership are central to all of this
>>>> 12.01.2010: Gerry Adams: A Family Trauma
>>>> 06.01.2010: North of Ireland: Statement of Relatives for Justice on UDA/UFF decommissioning (e)
Basque Abertzale Left presented a new initiative to resolve the conflict, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams welcomes initiative
>>>> 14.11.2009: Declaration - Principles and Will of the Abertzale Left
>>>> 14.11.2009: Conference in Venice: PEACE PROCESSES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Video messages by Nelson Mandela, Gerry Adams, Arnaldo Otegi, Moni Ovadia
>>>> 06.11.2009: "The loyalist threat to Northern Ireland"
>>>> 09.10.2009: Irish rebel music: "Irish Brigade" in Kleinostheim: further information
>>>> 20.09.2009: Ireland: Sinn Féin: "Alternative Guide to Lisbon 2"
On October, 2nd, the South of Ireland has to vote again on the Lisbon Treaty. With no respect for last year's no-vote
the Irish Government was pressurized by the dominant states of the EU to have another vote to deliver a different result.
>>>> 10.09.2009: the controversy about Libya and Britain and
the role of state terrorism during the conflict in the North of Ireland
The controversy about weapons allegedly supplied to the IRA by Libya during the
conflict leads to the issue of state terrorism as Britains secret weapon.
>>>> 27.08.2009: "Louis and Julie "
"Louis Mountbatten and Julie Livingstone were just two of the hundreds of
casualties of the Troubles, but the media treatment of their deaths tells
us a lot about the ways in which power controls public response."
Basque Country: a question to the governments of Spain and France
>>>> 22.07.2009: Where is Jon Anza? What did you do to him?
Riots after Orange Order parade was forced through Ardoyne:
>>>> 15.07.2009: Interview with Gerry Kelly:
Orange Order have done nothing for the peace process
+++ European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg confirms banning of Basque party Batasuna by the Spanish state +++
contradiction to position of UN Human Rights Commission +++
>>>> 03.07.2009: Batasuna - with regard to the judgement by the European Court of Human Rights
>>>> 27.06.2009: Campaign in Belfast: “Don’t Extradite the Basques!”
>>>> 22.06.2009: „We’ll keep watch over their homes“ - Locals stand against racist attacks
>>>> 26.05.2009: Polizeiombudsman investigates: PSNI 'never moved' during fatal Coleraine attack
>>>> 23.04.2009: "Gerry Adams in Israel and Gaza: Taking hope from the Good Friday Agreement"
Interview of the Basque newspaper BERRIA with Martin Scheinin about his report on the human rights situation in Spain.
Martin Scheinin ist the UN Special Rapporteur on
the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism:
>>>> 19.04.2009: "Spain has institutions that have no place in a democracy"
On the recent attacks of republican militarist micro groups in the North of Ireland:
>>>> 26.03.2009: The Dirty War... It hasn't gone away, you know
Statement of the Irlandinitiative Heidelberg and Info Nordirland:
>>>> 09.03.2009: Only a successful peace process will finally end violence
>>>> 23.02.2009: the truth is seeping out - Finucane an indictment of British collusion
>>>> 29.01.2009: North of Ireland: Dealing with the conflict and the past:
Cash for victims idea is an 'insult'!
Basque country - massive rally in Bilbo (span: Bilbao):
>>>> 03.01.2009: 37,000 people rally in support of the Basque political prisoners <<<<
International: Israeli air raids on the Palestinian city of Gaza - up to now over 300 dead
29. December 2008: Israeli air raids on Gaza with its 1,5 million people continue for the third day.
"More and more dead and wunded are registered. This morning (on December 29, 2008) there were
307 dead and over 1000 wunded", says Osama Said Aklouk, chief of the neurosurgery departement
of the Shifa hospital in Gaza.
>>>> 28.12.2008, press statement of the German "Friedensratschlag": Stop the Air Raids!
Annual Meeting of Relatives for Justice in Belfast, North of Ireland:
>>>> 18.12.2008: Truth costs nothing – coverup costs millions!
European Parliament in Brussels hosts conference on the Spanish-French-Basque conflict:
>>>> 11.11.2008: actions of the police critized, demand on Madrid to start a democratic process
>>>> 02.11.2008: Mary Nelis: Open letter to British Secretary of State Shaun Woodward
40th Anniversary Civil Rights Commemoration
>>>> 05.10.2008, Martin McGuinness: "That march for civil rights continues ..."
>>>> 14.09.2008 BBC Panorama: Omagh bomb calls were monitored
Sinn Féin analysis of Lisbon Treaty rejection: How the campaigns played out
>>>> 19.06.2008: Eoin Ó Broin: We won but the hard work is just beginning
New show trial in the Basque Country:
>>>> 08.06.2008: We say: Lessons from the North of Ireland?
>>>> 21.04.2008: Julen Arzuaga: 33/01 - Case against Gestoras Pro-Amnistia-Askatasuna
Murder of the lawyers Pat Finucane (in 1989) and Rosemary Nelson (in 1999) -
evidence points to collusion and the involvement of the British government:
>>>> 16.05.2008: Rosemary Nelson Inquiry: Lawyers were often target of RUC threats
>>>> 01.05.2008: British secretly blocked Finucane inquiry
>>>> 12.04.2008: Irish rebel music: "Irish Brigade" in Kleinostheim: further information
10. Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement:
>>>> 03.04.2008: Gerry Adams: The Good Friday Agreement - an historic and defining event
Basque Country:
International delegation to observe the situation during the Spanish general elections in the Basque Country
>>>> 22.03.2008: Travel report: State of emergency - visiting the Basque Country
>>>> 06.03.2008: Trade Unionists call for a boykott: Not even a minimum of democracy
>>>> 28.02.2008: Jim Gibney (Sinn Fein): Spain could learn lessons from Irish conflict
29.2./1.3.2008, Dublin: Info-Nordirland delegation visits Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (party conference) 2008:
>>>> Full coverage of the Ard Fheis (speeches and motions): see Sinn Féin Ard Fheis website <<<<
>>>> 29.02.2008: Momentous Political Developments - Keynote Speech by Martin McGuinness
>>>> 29.02.2008: Vote No to the Lisbon Treaty - Mary Lou McDonald MEP
Journalist Maik Baumgärtner talks to Uschi Grandel from Info Nordirland about the current
situation of the peace process in the North of Ireland, its impact on the life of ordinary people,
the Irish Republican Movement and the influence on other conflicts:
>>>> 17.2.2008: Interview on the peace process: Democratical change to all aspects of life
Basque country:
party bans and arrest of political activists
>>>> 9.02.2008: Spanish Government bans anti-fascist Basque party once banned under Franco's dictatorship
(German language)
>>>> 4.02.2008: Spanish Police arrests further leading members of the Basque Independence Movement
>>>> 02.02.2008: "Hautsitako Leihoa - the broken window" an ordinary day in the Basque Country
Dealing with the conflict in a proper way is an important foundation for a peaceful future:
>>>> 25.01.2008: Mary Nelis: The pain of the past
>>>> 13.01.2008: Mary Nelis: The trouble with war!
Basque country:
tens of thousands of Basque people rally in Bilbao against mass process / European Court of Human Rights
admits claim against the Spanish government / torture allegations against Spanish police:
>>>> 08.01.2008: a young Basque was taken to hospital with serious signs of torture - AI demands an investigation!
>>>> 13.12.2007: ECHR admits claim of the Basque party Batasuna
against the Spanish government
>>>> 02.12.2007: 547 years in prison instead of freedom of speech - background to the conflict
The European Court of Human Rights gave judgment in favour of the families of eight men, who sued
the British Government because of the involvment of members of the (British) security force in systematic
targetting of innocent civilians in the North of Ireland:
>>>> 27./28.11.2007: Press Releases on behalf of the families and their laywers <<<<
Debate on decommissioning of UDA weapons of pro-british terror group UDA:
>>>> 15.11.2007: Brian Feeny: Latest stunt will not make UDA disappear
>>>> 13.10.2007: Loyalist mob sets up two catholics and almost kills them while police don't intervene
>>>> 01.11.2007: Gerry Adams: "Exploring different routes to peace"
Interview with Irish peace facilitator Alec Reid about the Spanish-Basque conflict after
mass arrests of Batasuna leadership people in Segura
>>>> 07.10.2007: Alec Reid: "No one can call Spain a democratic state"
Debate on decommissioning of UDA weapons accompanied by UDA death threats against journalists and Sinn Féin members:
>>>> 02.10.2007: Sinn Féin leaders threatened
>>>> 28.09.2007: NUJ condemns death threat against Belfast editor
Iraq Delegation meets Representatives of Irish and South African Peace Process:
>>>> 10.09.2007: Hope for the Future and No Trust in Governments
>>>> 18.09.2007: Press Release, Pat Finucane Centre: "Belfast mother appeals to Iraqi Government"
>>>> 12.08.2007: Belfast: March for Truth - Thousands unite in call for truth
The British Army ended "Operation Banner", their decades long war campaign in the North of Ireland
on July 31, 2007:
>>>> 10.08.2007: Withdrawal? What withdrawal?
>>>> 13.07.2007: A story that bears repeating
>>>> 09.07.2007: British Army Learn Nothing !
>>>> 02.07.2007: British state closes ranks to protect Finucane killers
>>>> 25.06.2007: Last British troops pull out of South Armagh
The German newspaper Handelsblatt is organizing a conference on "Security Policy and the Defence Industry"
in Berlin on 3./4. July 2007. The North of Ireland is one of the topics.
01.07.2007: Our comment on a conference who chooses to invite a speaker, who is an apologist for murder and doesn't
respect UN embargos (German language only):
Human Rights - not worth talking about! <<<<
29.06.2007: Action Alert of the Pat Finucane Centre (PFC):
Protest the invitation to Tim Spicer to participate in the 4th Handelsblatt conference!
>>>> 17.06.2007: Robert Fisk: A cry for justice from a good man who expected us to protect his son
>>>> 16.06.2007: Robert Fisk:Welcome to 'Palestine'
>>>> 03.06.2007: British Army in the North of Ireland: Still at war?
Irish Elections 2007:
>>>> 27.05.2007: Gerry Adams: "Sinn Féin will learn lessons and build for the future"
>>>> 27.05.2007: Election counts conclude / Results
Agreement in the peace process opens up new era of politics in the North of Ireland:
>>>> 10.05.2007: Face of Ireland changed in just 16 minutes
>>>> 08.05.2007: Declaration from the German Ireland Solidarity Groups on power sharing:
an important step in the long process of conflict resolution
>>>> 07.05.2007: 'Difficult journey' to move forward
>>>> 26.03.2007: Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams
joint press conference - full text of the speeches
>>>> 26.03.2007: Paisley & Adams agree deal
>>>> 25.03.2007: Devolution restored pending agreement
>>>> 03.05.2007: UVF Statement: "Weapons out of reach and civilianised role in society"
/ first reactions and comments
>>>> 22.04.2007: UVF spy ring had dossiers on 116 people
Shell to Sea Campaign against Shell and Statoil in Mayo, West of Ireland:
>>>> 26.04.2007: Shell to Sea Campaign against Shell and Statoil wins Environment Price (e)
>>>> 18.3.2007: A straight choice between the peace process and barbarity
Assembly Elections in the North of Ireland:
>>>> 17.3.2007: Ronan Bennett: In a British fairyland
>>>> 15.3.2007: Mitchel McLaughlin: Decision of Electorate must be respected
>>>> 12.3.2007: Our comment: Voters demand power sharing
(German language only)
>>>> 09.3.2007: Assembly Election 2007 - final results
>>>> 22.2.2007: Castlederg - Ombudman to explain complaints procedures available against PSNI officers <<<<
>>>> 22.2.2007: Torture in police holding centres and Diplock courts - "a distinct feeling of unease"
On February, 12 eighteen years ago, Pat Finucane was murdered:
>>>> 12.02.2007: John Finucane:
Collusion led to my father's death. I owe it to him to find out the truth
Special Sinn Féin Ard Fheis on "Policing and Justice" on January 28, 2007 in Dublin:
Analysis:
>>>> 4.2.2007: Sea change in Northern politics
Voices from the Ard Fheis:
>>>> Martin McGuinness proposing the Ard Chomhairle motion at the Extraordinary Ard Fheis
>>>> Laurence McKeown: Policing debate another historic milestone in evolution of republican strategy
Further coverage, speeches and videos on >>>> Sinn Féin website <<<<
Operation Ballast: Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan publishes report on 22. January 2007
"... Senior RUC officers are understood to have been implicated in the
biggest-ever policing scandal to hit Northern Ireland. With the Government
braced for an uproar over how a state agency allowed a terrorist unit to
kill Catholics and Protestants, files have been sent to the Director of
Public Prosecutions ... (PA, 21. Jan 2007)
>>>> 22.01.2007: Public Statement of the Police Ombudsman
>>>> 21.01.2007: Police was running UVF gang
>>>> 19.01.2007: The victims - Over ten years left nineteen people dead - Police gave licence to kill
>>>> 19.01.2007:
Marc Thompson (Relatives for Justice): Don't stop on the bottom rung of collusion ladder
Intensive negotiations ahead to restore assembly:
>>>> 10.01.2007: DUP's creative ambiguity has limited lifespan
>>>> 02.01.2007: Gerry Adams explains Irish-Republican strategy: Sinn Féin wants to achieve maximum change
>>>> 29.12.2006: Sinn Féin to hold Ard Fheis (party conference) on policing
>>>> 25.11.2006: Stone charged with Adams murder bid /
Debate on power sharing continues
>>>> 24.11.2006: Gerry Adams nominates Martin McGuinness for power sharing government
>>>> 16.11.2006: British Legislation lifts agreement deadline /
Gerry Adams - Process is moving in the right direction
>>>> 10.11.2006: Governments to move St Andrews process forward
>>>> 10.10.2006: Sinn Féin - Determined to make Progress
Dissidents in the republican movement - analysis by Danny Morrison:
>>>> 10.09.2006: When One Doesn't Mind Being Called A Provo
Learning from the conflict in Ireland?
>>>> 06.09.2006: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams peace mission in Palestine and Israel
7. September 2006 - Updates on the peace process - intensive negotiations ahead to restore
assembly - deadline 24. November:
>>>> 06.09.2006: Hain confirms "intensive" talks conference
>>>> 06.09.2006: Equality is the guarantee for all
>>>> 06.09.2006: DUP must explain party link to right wing neo nazi group
>>>> 04.09.2006: ‘Nazis’ coming for parade
>>>> 06.09.2006: IMC Report - IRA have delivered on commitments
Account of a journey, August 2006 (at the moment only in German language - translation to English language
follows during September):
>>>> 25.08.2006 County Tyrone, Cappagh/Galbally, 13. -16. July 2006:
"The whole district pays tribute to Martin Hurson"
Political Prisoners and injustice - human rights violations in Ireland South and North:
>>>> 24.08.2006 Injustice must always be opposed and exposed
>>>> 13.08.2006: Campaign for release of Michael McKevitt grows
Just before the first anniversary of the historic IRA statement ending its armed campaign the British and Irish
government publicly state: "there is not any organised ‘from-the-centre’ criminality of the IRA"
>>>> 26.07.2006 Criminality excuse finally laid to rest
>>>> 28.07.2006: Opportunity opened up can still be grasped / Unionists still refuse to have open minds
Orange Orders - marching season:
>>>> 29.06.2006 Because it's traditional it doesn't make it right
>>>> 23.06.2006 Timely reminder to second-class nationalists
>>>> 14.06.2006 North Belfast: Historic agreement reached on Orange parade
Wolfe Tone was one of the founders of the United Irishmen in 1791. Embracing the principles of the
French Revolution he was a free-thinker in matters religious and a republican in politics.
>>>> 19.06.2006: Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly delivers the main address at the annual commemoration
in Bodenstown
Cannes Film Festival - May 2006:
>>>> 30.06.2006: Palme d'Or for Ken Loach film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley"
>>>> 01.06.2006: Ken Loach - Critics had been movitated by a "deep-seated imperialist guilt"
15-year old Michael McIlveen died after sectarian loyalist attack in Ballymena:
>>>> 19.05.2006: Ballymena ethos fuels sectarianism
>>>> 14.05.2006: Where peace has made no progress
>>>> 09.05.2006: Laughter of our children?
New talks in the Irish peace process from Mai 15, 2006 to reestablish power sharing government in the North:
>>>> 10.05.2006: Gerry Adams: "Sinn Féin approach to Assembly"
>>>> 12.05.2006: Overview on the positions of the different parties
5. Mai 1981: 25 years ago Bobby Sands died on hunger strike
>>>> 05.05.2006: Ubuntu - Robert McBride (ANC) gives the annual Bobby Sands lecture in Belfast
>>>> 04.05.2006: Former Hunger Striker Laurence McKeown's story
>>>> 05.05.2006: And 25 years later ...
>>>> 04.05.2006: Remember them with pride, work for their ideals
>>>> 05.05.2006: semi autobiographical article (smuggled 1981 out from the H-Blocks): "THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT OF FREEDOM "
New talks in the Irish peace process from Mai 15, 2006 to reestablish power sharing government in the North:
>>>> 30.04.2006: Monitoring report turns up heat on unionist leaders
Ireland commemorates Easter Rising of 1916 against British colonial power:
>>>> 24.04.2006: Gerry Adams calls for a national coalition for Irish unity
>>>> 12.04.2006: 1916 and all that...
>>>> 17.04.2006: Ahern pledges to work for peace and reconciliation
>>>> 07.04.2006: Press statement on behalf of the Donaldson family
>>>> 05.04.2006: Who killed Denis Donaldson?
>>>> 05.04.2006: Death of Denis Donaldson: Killers are hostile to peace process
>>>> 23.03.2006: Basque ceasefire:
Welcome in Ireland for ETA move
17 years ago the lawyer Pat Finucane was murdered:
>>>> 08.03.2006: Irish Parliament Dáil demands inquiry for Finucane
>>>> 15.02.2006: Establishment be warned – the truth will out
>>>> 03.03.2006: Comparable collusion in South Africa and Tyrone
>>>> 02.03.2006: Gerry Adams backs father of UVF victim
New talks in the Irish peace process:
>>>> 05.02.2006: Disband the IMC - Sinn Fein
>>>> 05.02.2006: Lies and Propaganda
>>>> 27.01.2006: PARTIES SET FOR TALKS SHOWDOWN
>>>> 25.01.2006: Brian Feeny: Outcome of IMC report is very predictable
Light is shed into police/secret services role in collapsing institutions in the North of Ireland in 2002:
>>>> 11.01.2006: Vincent Browne (Irish Times): "The dog ate my homework"
>>>> 28.12.2005: Open letter to Tony Blair
>>>> 17.12.2005: Expelled member of Sinn Féin was British spy -
British role in collapsing Executive exposed
>>>> 09.12.2005: Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern: Spy case 'a lot of grief for no prosecutions'
>>>> 09.12.2005: 'Spy' trio held 'to save Trimble'
>>>> 04.12.2005 Political rows surround ‘on-the-runs’ legislation
>>>> 03.12.2005 Come forward, state offenders are urged by victims’ group
Delegation to the West Belfast Festival 2005:
>>>> Report on the journey from Brigitte and Uschi
>>>> 19.11.2005: British Army and the UDA - collusion cover up
>>>> 31.10.2005 LVF stood down
South African secret services minister Ronnie Kasrils visits Ireland to participate in the
100. birthday celebrations of Sinn Fein:
>>>> 25.10.2005 Jarlath Kearney interviews Ronnie Kasrils: "One’s got to create here (North of Ireland) a new state apparatus"
Gerry Adams visits South Africa from 18.-21. October 2005:
>>>> Overview: ANC and SF - report on the journey and the long cooperation
>>>> 28.10.2005 Richard McAuley: "Solidarity and support - Gerry Adams in South Africa "
>>>> 21.10.2005 Gerry Adams addresses the South African Parliament: "Working with Unionists"
>>>> 20.10.2005 Gerry Adams to the ANC: "What we want in Ireland is what you have achieved in South Africa."
Fógraí Báis (Obituary): Brian Campbell 1960 - 2005
""He was a poet, writer, playwright, IRA Volunteer, political prisoner, political activist, friend,
partner, husband, father, and valued member of the community.
We will miss you a chara but we are richer because you were with us for a time.""
>>>> 14.10.2005 Laurence McKeown: "Fógraí Báis (Obituary): Brian Campbell 1960 - 2005"
IRA delivers on it's promises:
>>>> 06.10.2005 Jim Gibney: IRA initiative strengthens peace process
>>>> 26.09.2005 Gerry Adams: a very positive response to my appeal to the IRA
>>>> 26.09.2005 BBC: IRA 'has destroyed all its arms'
>>>> 25.09.2005 IRA will dump arms soon - Gerry Adams
>>>> 24.09.2005 Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams: Sinn Féin seek progress in time ahead
Unionist (pro-british) paramilitary violence escalates:
>>>> 15.9.2005 Martin McGuinness: "Unionists must sit down with Sinn Féin!"
>>>> 15.9.2005 A victim of the ongoing loyalist violence speaks out
>>>> 23.8.2005 Anne Cadwallader: What can we do to end sectarianism?
>>>> 22.8.2005 Once again Short Strand under severe attack
>>>> 18.8.2005 Sinn Féin launch dossier on unionist paramilitary activity
Columbia Three:
>>>> 08.08.2005 "Columbia Three" must stay!
>>>> 05.08.2005 "Columbia Three" return to Ireland
IRA ends armed campaign:
>>>> 28.07.2005 statement of the IRA
>>>> 28.07.2005 Comment from Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams
>>>> 29.07.2005 Reactions from other parties
>>>> 27.07.2005 Unionist (pro-British) paramilitaries: “Armed and dangerous”
Orange Orders - marching season:
>>>> 24.06.2005 Squinter: "A court case would be over in five minutes"
>>>> 24.06.2005 Attempting to reassert the Orange state
>>>> 24.06.2005 Kelly arrest a blatant act of provocation
>>>> 18.06.2005 March Madness
>>>> 18.06.2005 Lodges 'delighted' after commission climbdown
>>>> 24.05.2005 Hardline triumphalism bodes ill for the streets
>>>> 28.05.2005 Who will address nationalist fears?
>>>> 26.05.2005 DUP's unionist domination will not happen
>>>> 23.05.2005 Gerry Adams: Only way forward is through the Good Friday Agreement
>>>> 12.05.2005 Andytown News: Is that your best shot?
>>>> 10.05.2005 Susan McKay: Unionism is to blame for jigging David's fall
>>>> 26.04.2005 IRA has authorised discussion on initiative of Gerry Adams
British Government rushes Inquiry Bill through parliament:
>>>> 14.04.2005 Geraldine Finucane has asked all Senior Judges in England,
Scotland and Wales not to accept appointment to an Inquiries Act
Inquiry into the murder of her husband
>>>> 08.04.2005 Designed to succeed
>>>> 06.04.2005 Gerry Adams - an address to the IRA
Murder of Robert McCartney:
>>>> 19.03.2005 Locally, sympathy is turning to anger
>>>> 15.03.2005 PSNI accused of playing politics
>>>> 11.03.2005 Jim Gibney: "It's wrong to play down IRA peace offer" (e)
The campaign of the McCartney sisters zu get justice for their murdered brother is used by some
to pressurize Sinn Féin into accepting the PSNI. Fairy-tales about how the murder is thought to
have taken place demonize the whole community of Short Strand. Below you find articles on the
mood in Short Strand, a detailed description of the course of events as investigated by the IRA,
and a look at new allegations against the PSNI in a different case. These allegations might
help to get a feeling for the unease with which witnesses in the McCartney murder approach
the police:
>>>> 11.03.2005 Severe allegations against the police departement "Special Branch"
by a former high ranking RUC officer
>>>> 09.03.2005 McCartney's response to the IRA Statement
>>>> 09.03.2005 Second statement of the IRA on the murder of Robert McCartney
>>>> 07.03.2005 On the ground in Short Strand
From Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (March 4-6, 2005 in Dublin):
>>>> 11.03.2005 Sinn Féin 2005
>>>> 06.03.2005 Gerry Kelly opens session on Policing
>>>> 05.03.2005 Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP's Presidential Address
>>>> 26.02.2005 The killing of Robert McCartney:
IRA Statement / Gerry Adams meets McCartney family
>>>> 25.02.2005 An onslaught like no other - democracy and civil rights endangered
>>>> 23.02.2005 Danny Morrison: "Bolstering the SDLP"
>>>> 22.02.2005 Intelligence gap
>>>> 22.02.2005 Fact and Fiction - role of the media in the current crisis
>>>> 21.02.2005 Sinn Féin rejects McDowell's IRA claim
>>>> 20.02.2005 Editorial Daily Ireland: House of cards collapsing as SF member is released
>>>> 20.02.2005 Open Season
>>>> 16.02.2005 Jim Gibney: The shipyard and silence replaced
>>>> 09.02.2005 Open letter of the Irish American Unity in Action Committee
>>>> 10.02.2005 Danny Morrison: The Issue of Apologising
Crisis in the peace process: the aim behind criminalizing and demonizing the IRA
is trying to undermine the Irish-Republican party Sinn Féin and
their election success in Ireland North and South:
>>>> 07.02.2005 Sinn Féin opposed to return to conflict
>>>> 02.02.2005 IRA offer withdrawn
>>>> 30.01.2005 Martin McGuinness: High Intensity Politics
>>>> 28.01.2005 Jim Gibney: Criminalisation revisited
PSNI Chief Constable accusations throws peace process into crisis:
>>>> 24.1.2005 Spooks, Robbers and Dirty Tricks
- by Martin McGuinness
>>>> 14.1.2005 Intelligence, opinions and illusions
- an analysis by Laura Friel
>>>> 14.1.2005 Killing the process
>>>> 10.1.2005 Comment on the bank heist in Belfast and the political consequences
>>>> 10.1.2005 McGuinness: Sinn Féin will not allow mandate to be set aside
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