The Five Demands

A picture paints a thousand words?

If you look at each of these photographs, each tells a story, but it is a different story to each one of us that look at these photographs and each individual feels different emotions.
Martin Mc Guinness shaking the hand of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces in June 2012. This was the reason I resigned from Sinn Fein as I seen it as “A step too far”. I had been unhappy for a long time within Sinn Fein as I had witnessed many things that did not rest easy with me and could not stomach the lies and the skulduggery I was surrounded by for the sake of electoral success. Martin Mc Guinness who by his own admission states he was a member of the IRA in Derry and that he witnessed the murder of those innocent people murdered by the Parachute regiment in 1972 on Bloody Sunday, then felt it was acceptable to meet and shake the hand of the Queen of England who presented medals of honour and bravery to those very same soldiers who murdered 14 Derry civilians in cold blood. After this meeting he stated he was “still an Irish Republican”.
The next photograph is President of Sinn Fein Gerry Adams shaking the hand of Prince Charles who holds the post of Colonel-in-Chief of the Parachute regiment. This was the same regiment who in August 1971 during the introduction of Internment murdered 11 innocent civilians in Ballymurphy over a two day period before they went to Derry and Bloody Sunday happened 5 months later. Gerry Adams is from Ballymurphy and knows most of these families personally. He has been the main speaker at The Ballymurphy Massacre march (which is held in August) for a number of years.
The last picture is of newly elected M.P. for west Belfast Paul Maskey and other Sinn Fein members standing with those same Ballymurphy families protesting at the visit of the royal prince.
The leadership of Sinn Fein have shown by their actions over this last number of years a total disregard of the feelings of these bereaved families who have yet to recover from the murders of their loved ones by these English soldiers. No Para has been charged with murder? No medal of honour has been withdrawn.
It is all in the name of reconciliation they say, to move the peace process forward they say, but do they mean we need to forget our dead and bury our grief and swallow our pain for the Sinn Fein electoral gain.

NOT IN MY NAME!

Angela Nelson