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Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
Elections
Eamonn
McCann
Hot Press 9/5/2002It's perfectly proper that political parties
should make an election issue out of the refusal of an Irish leader to
explain what his associates have been up to in Colombia or to spell out the
relationship between his organisation and one of the groups involved in the
appalling violence currently raging in that misfortunate country. The man
at the centre of a Colombian controversy which shouldn't be allowed to go
away is Peter Sutherland, former Irish Attorney General under Garret
FitzGerald, then chairman of Allied Irish Banks at the height of the
off-shore account scam, later a European commissioner, subsequently director
general of the World Trade Organisation, currently on the board of the
multinational Ericsson company and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Oh, and
chairman of British Petroleum. A certified member of the executive committee
of the world ruling class.
Comments: 10:49:44 AM 
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Clogher -
Tyrone's militarised zoneSinn Féin in Clogher, County Tyrone, has
produced a report detailing the continuing large scale and oppressive
military occupation of the area. This document has come about as the
result of years of frustration by the nationalist people of the Clogher
Valley at the endless military presence in our midst as we try to live our
lives. There has been a constant military presence in this area for over 30
years and with the advent of the peace process we all believed that we would
no longer see British military camp, jeeps, foot patrols, helicopters,
survillence cameras in our area for much longer. But seven years into a
peace process not one thing has changed for the people of Clogher. The new
sense of hope that we as a community were about to see a return to some sort
of normality is continually dashed by the heavy presence of military might
which daily weighs down on our community.
Comments: 10:39:24 AM
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