Monday, October 15, 2012

This peace is a tough bet

After the conflicts, the next one year will be deciding force for Ireland

In what has compelled a section of British politicians and analysts to claim that Northern Ireland is once again staring in to “abyss”, the Continuity IRA, a splinter cluster of banned Irish Republican Army (IRA) has shot a police officer and two British soldiers dead. The assassination is a first for a police officeholder in Northern Ireland since 1998. Also, it was for the first time that officers of the elite PSNI (a special force to counter terror activities) were targeted since this paramilitary force was incepted in 2001. Things had changed considerably following the peace deal. The deal saw the disarmament of IRA in 2005 followed by a unity Catholic-Protestant government in 2007.

Response to the incidents has brought quick denunciation from Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party that was once close to IRA. However, their statements have been cautiously attuned – calling the “actions” as “counter-productive” and evading until pushed, the word “murder”.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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