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Date Posted: Wed, May 23 2007, 12:50:37 PDT
Author: iapl_newsroom32@hotmail.com
Subject: "PEACE REPORT" RUBBISHED

The below report on the "peace-meeting" at the AOH Hall in Derry, is to-day rubbished in the Foyle News by leading "Dissidents" - RIRA, INLA ETC.

Real IRA ready to renounce violence
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2084037,00.html

Dissidents unite to end arms struggle

Henry McDonald, Ireland editor
Sunday May 20, 2007
The Observer

The Real IRA, the Republican dissident group that was responsible for the Omagh bombing, will this week say that it is to renounce violence having agreed with the Irish National Liberation Army and the Continuity IRA on a peaceful Northern Ireland strategy. It has been forced to accept that there is a mass of opposition to terrorism even among working-class republicans.

One dissident republican source told The Observer yesterday: 'What use is planting a few firebombs in furniture stores and garden centres?'

Article continues
'While the violence goes on the Provos can paint those opposed to their strategy as mad bombers and killers. There must be an alternative republican strategy to Sinn Fein and the sell-out at Stormont, but it must be political and peaceful.'

Dissident organisations have been under severe pressure ever since the Omagh bomb nine years ago. Twenty-nine people and two unborn babies died when a Real IRA bomb ripped apart the centre of the Co Tyrone market town in August 1998. To date no one has yet been jailed in relation to the massacre.

The Real IRA stood condemned across the world for what was the single biggest atrocity of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Its leader Michael McKevitt, the Provisional IRA's former 'quarter master general' was later arrested and jailed for directing terrorism.

The organisation was forced to declare a ceasefire and although it has since tried to renew its armed campaign RIRA has been hit by mass arrests, infiltration and the interception of arms shipments.

A key measurement of the success of the Irish security forces against it is that there are now more dissident republicans in the Republic's prisons than there were Provos back when the IRA declared a ceasefire in 1994.

The latest meeting of dissidents at the Ancient Order of Hibernians' hall in Derry city centre brought together ex-prisoners and republicans opposed to Sinn Fein sitting in what they see as a 'partitionist' government at Stormont.

Ex-IRA prisoner Danny McBrearty organised the conference that was attended by 200 delegates. He confirmed that the gathering formulated a way for an alternative republican strategy.

A republican veteran who attended said recent sporadic attacks in Newry and Belfast were only 'having a nuisance value' and were in danger of putting nationalist people out of work. 'It's clear from our own people that the appetite for a war has long gone. CIRA and RIRA are poorly armed despite shopping expeditions to the former Eastern bloc.

'The groups have been reduced to launching fire bomb attacks on commercial targets which aren't going to win us any favours.' An INLA source also confirmed this weekend that the three terror groups were united in acknowledging that there was no support for armed struggle. 'It's time we listened to the people and gave them a real political alternative,' the source said.

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