paper with the ost nee , PO Box 50, London N1. NO WORDS can describe the hypocrisy of the British government over Enniskillen.
Bloody Sunday Catholics were gunned down by British paratroops described although it was like a textbook exercise from one of the British army's 'low intensity operations'. The entire British state was wheeled out to whitewash this massacre. Scarcely any publicity is given to sustained campaigns of sectarian murder by unionist thugs. Yet when at Enniskillen tragedy from which Republicans clearly had nothing to gain, entire British publicity starting with the Royal family, is and ruling class have used in innumerable colonial from Amritsar onwards.
Indeed what sickening than the the Irish 1846-47, a direct result of British rule, a million died from starvation and million emigrate, Ireland is the only state in Western Europe in which the population today is lower than it was in the nineteenth century.
piece manipulation British standards. counties of Ulster would have pro. duced a majority for independence from Britain. So three counties were simply amputated 'democratic' majority for partition.
duced held its Nationalist minority down by terror and discrimination.
Even Catholics is three times as among Protestants.
When, on the against 1972, tain, who this was mistake apparatus of the violence was terrible machine, massacres be more range of people, British role in famine of were forced The partition of Ireland in 1922 anti-democratic staggering CYCl by these roads.' The original nine The produce determination The sectarian state that was prounemployment high The problem in the North of Ireland is not one between 'com munities'. It is one where a section of population discriminated by another the unionist bigots propped up by • Brireject any that would make the North of Ireland a democratic or equal society — for if it were a democratic and equal society it would have no reason for existing.
This combination will produce for long as Because human nature, and that is its strength, will not accept such oppression. It will fight and fight against it — as has happened in Ireland now for two hundred years. And finally Britain will not be able to bear the cost of it and will withdraw.
Ken Livingstone put it entirely correctly in his speech in London on Tuesday: Anyone with a sense of history knows that it is inevitable that Britain will withdraw from Ireland. It is folly, which has cost countless lives, to attempt to avoid or slow this pro'It is increasingly clear, to a wider that no progressive role can be played by Britain continu ing on the path of attempting to stop inevitable. If Britain remains in the North of Ireland it has only one of choices. It is called upon by unionists to continue to prop up a sectarian state... But attempts to impose such serious reforms as would eliminate sectarianism are resisted by unionists — as the record of the las period has shown... There is no pro. gressive way forward along either of reason is that the North of Ireland state is based on a denial of the right of the Irish people to selfembodies tarianism and discrimination. As long as it exists there will be no peace in must get out.
• Why Britain must leave Ireland p2 • Sinn Fein statement on Enniskillen
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turned loose. It is a perfection of technique which the British army