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Date Posted: 11:47:47 04/08/02 Mon
Provo arms destruction 'Abject treachery'
Statement by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, President, Republican Sinn Féin
April 8, 2002
With the Easter 1916 commemoration ceremonies over, another act of abject treachery has been performed by the Provisional leadership - something for which they have carried out the death penalty on their own members in recent years.
We are told that a "varied and substantial" amount of ammunition, arms and explosives has been voluntarily destroyed in the presence of witnesses and that this is being reported to the British government.
These arms were given to the Provos for the freedom of Ireland and not as a bargaining counter for securing, maintaining and expanding office in Stormont, Westminster and Leinster House, thus copper-fastening English rule in Ireland.
To date no arms held by British-backed loyalists have been destroyed - although these are continually in use against nationalists - nor have arms in the possession of the British forces themselves been verifiably "decommissioned".
Never before in Irish history has such treachery to the All-Ireland Republic at the behest of the British government been engaged in and now for the second time.
In time to come those who so collaborate with the British forces of occupation will be reviled by their people as are the quislings and traitors of World War II.
"The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceeding small."
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