The Five Demands

Il PSNI ha comunicato al Vice Presidente nordirlandese Martin McGuinness l’esistenza di una reale minaccia di morte nei suoi confronti entro le prossime 24 ore.
Tuttavia McGuinness ha affermato che sono molte le minacce di  morte che sta ricevendo sull’onda delle sue accuse di tradimento rivolte ai dissidenti repubblicani.
Queste le dichiarazioni del Vice Primo Ministro, riportate dall’Irish Times.
“Ho passato la mia intera vita adulta impegnandomi nella lotta repubblicana per un’Irlanda unita e indipendente”
“In tutto questo tempo ci sono stati numerosi tentativi di mettermi a tacere”
“Le informaziono sono pervenute da tutta una serie di agenzie statali inglesi e da loro informatori in lealisti bande”.
“Sembra che alcuni di questi piccoli gruppi (dissidenti, ndr) abbiano preso il loro posto nella società.”
Ed ha aggiunto: “Una cosa è certa: né io né il Sinn Fein abbiamo consentito in passato a questi tipi di minacce di fermarci nel rappresentare la nostra comunità e nel portare avanti l’agenda di repubblicana e non permetteremo loro di distoglierci dal nostro futuro lavoro”

McGuinness faces dissident threat (The Irish Times)
Northern Ireland Deputy first Minister Martin McGuinness has been told by police he is under death threat from dissident republicans.
Sinn Fein said the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) told Mr McGuinness that a threat to his life had been made by dissident republicans, who murdered two soldiers and a police officer last month.
Mr McGuinness who had, while standing alongside chief constable Sir Hugh Orde and First Minister Peter Robinson, branded dissident republican groups as “traitors” following the murders said he would not be intimidated by threats.
“Over the past 24 hours I have been contacted by the PSNI and told of the existence of a threat to my life. It is believed this threat comes from a so-called dissident grouping,” Mr McGuinness said in a statement issued this morning.
“I have spent my entire adult life engaged in the republican struggle to bring about Irish unity and independence.
“Throughout that time there have been numerous attempts made to silence me and stop me going about my republican work.
“These have come from a variety of British state agencies and their surrogates in the loyalist gangs.
“It now seems that some of these small groups have now taken their place in that company.”
He added: “One thing is for certain: neither I nor Sinn Fein has allowed these sorts of threats to stop us representing our community and driving forward the republican agenda in the past and we will not allow it to deflect us from our work in the future.
“The task of building the peace process and advancing republican and democratic goals is far too important for us to let that happen.”