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"Mr President, I too should like to welcome the McCartney family members to the Chamber. I salute their courage and bravery in endeavouring to get justice for their brother.
Robert McCartney was brutally murdered by a gang of thugs and criminals masquerading as Republican political activists or IRA freedom fighters. These people should be brought to justice. They have murdered an innocent man and severely injured his colleague. They have compromised the good names and reputations of those people in their own political family who were witnesses to, but not involved in, this murder.
The entirely innocent people who were accidentally present at the time of the murder have been obliged to remain silent about these events: in effect to become accomplices in the crime of these thugs and criminals. The guilty people continue to walk the streets of their community and to associate with their political family despite the pretence of disowning them by the Sinn Féin leadership. Its political and parliamentary leadership has shown that it is unable or unwilling to control them. Their continued freedom raises a fundamental question concerning Sinn Féin and the IRA movement: who controls the direction that this movement takes in the future? Is its future to be shaped by people who genuinely subscribe to the Irish peace process and to the resolution of the problem in Ireland by democratic means, or are Sinn Féin and the IRA controlled by people who are prepared to tolerate and even support criminal acts of murder?
I know that these sorts of acts do not only happen on one side of the community, unfortunately. There are other groups involved in paramilitary activities, beatings and shootings. They too must be condemned. But the leadership of Sinn Féin and the IRA has the power and influence to bring the thugs and criminals who murdered Robert McCartney to justice if it so wants. So far it has shown itself to be more interested in political posturing and media manipulation than in getting justice for the McCartney family.
Why is it that the McCartney family has to go to Washington, Brussels, Strasbourg, London and other places to get justice when, in its own community, it is not being properly represented by the people who say they represent it – Sinn Féin/IRA? Why is the family looking for justice here? Why is Sinn Féin/IRA not helping it on the ground to get justice within its own community?
Yesterday an article was written by Jim Cusack in
. If half or one-third of what he wrote is true, then Sinn Féin/IRA has a serious problem about controlling what is happening in the communities it says it represents.
The time has come for Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to produce the people guilty of this crime and oblige them to submit themselves to the will of the courts. They should not be allowed to hide behind the cover of the political movement they claim to support.
I support this resolution and the proposal for the family to be given full funding for any legal fees it may incur if it goes to trial."@en1
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"The Sunday Independent"1
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