The Five Demands

I dati reali contenuti nel rapporto dell’Independent International Commission on Decommissioning “non verranno mai pubblicati”

A quasi un anno dall’annuncio dato dall’UDA dell’avvenuta consegna dei propri arsenali, l’ndependent International Commission on Decommissioning deve ancora presentare la propria relazione all’attenzione dei governi britannico e irlandese.
La relazione finale della commissione guidata dal Gen. John de Chastelain comprenderà anche un inventario di tutte le armi ed esplosivi distrutti, ma quante di queste informazioni verranno rivelate dai governi, non è ancora chiaro a causa di un probabile accordo con le organizzazioni terroristiche.
Un portavoce della Commissione, senza voler deliberatamente scendere nello specifico, ha dichiarato: “Stiamo ultimando la relazione. Non c’è ancora una data esatta, ma ci aspettiamo di poterla presentare nei primi mesi del 2011”.
A parlare di un ‘accordo’ tra le parti è stato Jackie McDonald ‘brigadiere UDA’ sostenendo che l’inventario degli arsenali dismessi da ciascuna organizzazione non verrà reso noto. “Non faceva parte dell’accordo”, tuona il lealista e continua “Io non credo che lui (il generale de Chastelain) possa. Non fu mai, mai messo in discussione che questo avrebbe potuto avvenire”.
“Avrebbe dovuto essere oggetto di argomentazione, ma non lo è stato”.
Anche l’UVF ha dichiarato di aver consegnato tutte le armi, ma poi la leadership ha apposto la propria firma al barbaro omicidio a Shankill Road di Bobby Moffett, ex membro del Red Hand Commando.
Willie Gallagher appartenente al Republican Socialist Movement, legato a doppio filo all’INLA, interpellato in merito ai contenuti della relazione dell’IICD ha dichiarato: “Se dovessero specificare la quantità di armi ed esplosivi lo farebbero in senso generale – non separatamente per ogni organizzazione (paramilitare)”.
“Questa è quanto crediamo accadrà.”
Sulla sponda repubblicana, è opinione comune del MI5 e della PSNI che l’IRA non abbia consegnato armi e esplosivi nella loro totalità.

Northern Ireland’s secret arms deal (Belfast Telegraph)
Public ‘will never be told full decommissioning details’
The public is unlikely to ever learn the full extent of the paramilitary arsenals destroyed by the international decommissioning body because of a deal with the terror organisations.
Almost a year after the last acts of disarmament, the final report of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning has yet to be submitted to the British and Irish governments.
While the final report by General John de Chastelain’s team will include an inventory of all weapons and explosives destroyed, how much of this information the governments will release is unclear.
A spokesman for the commission told the Belfast Telegraph: “We are finalising the report. There is no exact date yet, but we expect to be submitting it early in 2011.”
Asked about its content, he said: “It wouldn’t be appropriate to comment whilst it is work-in-progress.”
No explanation for the year-long wait for the report has been given.
UDA ‘brigadier’ Jackie McDonald, who was present when that organisation’s weapons were |destroyed a year ago, is not |expecting a full inventory to be released.
“I would expect a more general thing,” he said.
Asked whether something more specific could emerge — including the number and type of weapons decommissioned by each organisation, he said: “That wasn’t part of the arrangement.
“I don’t think he (General de Chastelain) could. It was never, ever discussed that that would happen.
“That would’ve had to have been part of the discussion along the line and it wasn’t.”
Confirmation of the group’s decommissioning came on January 6 last year with the UDA saying “all weaponry under its control” had been put beyond use.
The UVF also claimed to have decommissioned all its arms, but later its leaders sanctioned the murder of former Red Hand Commando prisoner Bobby Moffett on the Shankill Road in Belfast.
Neither MI5 nor the PSNI believe that all IRA weapons were decommissioned.
The commission had estimates of how much weaponry the groups had, and the IICD inventory will be checked against those to establish the extent of decommissioning.
Willie Gallagher of the INLA-linked Republican Socialist Movement told this newspaper: “If they (the IICD) do itemise the amount of weaponry and explosives they would do it in an overall sense — not by organisation.
“That’s our understanding of what will happen.”