NORTHERN IRELAND: LVF CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY FOR LONDONDERRY KILLING
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2015
- (18 Jan 1998) English/Nat
A breakaway Loyalist terror group (L-V-F), claimed responsibility on Sunday for murdering a Catholic man in the county of Londonderry.
The man was found dead after having been shot in the head beside a youth club in the small mostly Catholic town of Maghera, 25 miles (40 kilometres) northwest of Belfast.
Police have so far declined to confirm that the man was the victim of the fourth sectarian killing by extremist Protestant gunmen since Christmas.
Residents said the victim was in his late twenties and had recently returned home after working in the United States.
In its statement to Belfast media, the outlawed Loyalist Volunteer Force (L-V-F) claimed it killed the man because he was "a known republican who is engaged in an arms shipment from America".
Using a recognised code word in a telephone call to a television station it also said: "This is not the last".
The L-V-F killings of Catholics have been in revenge for the murder on December 27th of the group's leader Billy Wright inside the Maze prison by an outlawed dissident republican group.
Martin McGuinness, the chief negotiator for Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (I-R-A), spoke to reporters at the scene of the incident.
He said the killing offered further proof that some protestants were trying to do all in their power to wreck the peace process.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I can tell you without fear of contradiction that there is a great anger which will increase as a result of this killing within the nationalist community as to what has happened. And the reality is that many people believe that governments are prone to this type of pressure. And it is very important that people understand where this pressure is coming from. This pressure is coming from unionist political leaders within the talks who refuse to negotiate."
SUPER-CAPTION: Sinn Fein's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness
McGuinness said he would discuss this latest incident with British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, when he meets him for talks in London on Monday.
The surprise meeting has been called by Blair while other parties in Belfast start negotiating on a new lawmaking assembly for Northern Ireland, a proposal bitterly opposed by Sinn Fein.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Well we will obviously be dealing with this very serious latest development. This ongoing vicious campaign of sectarian murder which is taking place in our society. But we're also there to point out to the British Prime Minister that what is required are meaningful negotiations which are entitled to bring about fundamental change. And we're going to explain to Tony Blair that we believe there can be no internal settlement. And that he has a key responsibility as has Bertie Ahern to live up to the promises that were made in the past that there wouldn't be an internal settlement. So of course we will discuss with him the way in which this document, the proposed heads of agreement, was placed on the table at the point of a Unionist gun, that's what the vast majority of Nationalists believe. And we will also tell him, I believe without fear of contradiction, that the overwhelming majority of Nationalists are deeply dissatisfied and angry at what has happened in the course of the last number of weeks."
SUPER-CAPTION: Sinn Fein's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness
The peacemaking plan, jointly presented last week by the British and Irish governments to the Belfast talks, has been well received by other parties taking part in the peace talks.
But Sinn Fein seeks a united Ireland, and is opposed to establishing
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What’s McGuinness talking about being promised by Blair that there would be no internal settlement , then McGuinness goes and signs the GFA accepting the principle of consent that was on the table since Sunningdale in December 1973. Weird !!!!
I live in the south and the more I think about are past the more I understand the outrage the people in ulster must have about that so-called agreement that should never have been signed ,, In fact its fucking embarrassing that the cunts in the Irish government stud by as are brothers and sisters were 🔥 out of their homes and streets and gunen down by a foreign force who never had a right in Ireland and can never have a right in Ireland and never will have a right in Ireland 🇮🇪 ,
He was a walk over. The proper Republicans stood their ground and get labeled dissidents by McGuinness lol
@@shredder9536 yes he bent the knee to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and kissed her Royal hand. He was a great republican 🤫
The serb/bosnia/yugo settlement was eventually the exact same proposal from the beginning. People always seem to fight first to let off steam
Who was that cxxt behind McGuiness? Very nervous thought someone was creeping up on him. Well he does look a creep himself
Looks like a fearless soldier of Ireland to me.
derry where they make milk
Derry 🇮🇪🇮🇪
🇮🇪
Love the way Marty talks as if he thinks we care
Who we you can only speak for yourself
Thats maghera!!!??*
Greysteel...
Derry 🇮🇪👍
Live by the sword 🤔
He was an innocent man murdered
Martin McGuinness - Became a VERY RICH MAN - Profit from this hate.
fuck off asshole
Yeah he owned Tayto crisps and Radio Telefis Eireann and the Aviva Stadium not to mention Glenveagh National Park and 420'000 acres of prime Donegal real estate which included the entire towns of Dungloe and Gweedore and Letterkenny but shoosh don't tell anyone ya doolally bampot🤣🤣🤣🎺
@@torquemada3273 plus all the ££££££ he got from wink wink, you know who.....
Did Marty have cancer or a brill diet.
The county is just called Derry.
Derry/Londonderry is the city.
No way, it is all Londonderry la
@@davidravenscroft9235😂😂😂🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Thin marty
PROVO
State collusion
I have not believe in uk government for years. look who is the government now.
Londonderry
Andrew Mcquilkin Derry hardly anyone says Londonderry anymore.
Free Derry
nah it’s derry
How hot is hell McGuiness?
Hows Maggie and paisley 😂😂😂😂
ask paisley
@@NiallMcG85
Ah such class you IRA pigs have!
@@paulodonnell4004
You're a thick Irish oik that can't even spell.
@@paulodonnell4004
Truth hurts eh pal? Lol! Oh dear, I seem to have scared O Donnell off! As cowardly as the IRA.
Martin is gone…as his wee IRA squad
Strange then how Sinn Fein is now the biggest political party in the north of Ireland and hold the post of first minister, apart from the office of Mayor in Belfast, Derry and beyond, well done Martin McGuinness. Oh by the way, how many of those representing the cowardly sectarian loyalist murder gangs are elected to office? 🤣🤣🤣
derry
kevinJbreslin honda thank you for being a normal person and correcting these downers that call Derry London Derry so I subscribe to you
Londonderry ,fuck wart
Derry
Wheres that?
You can't force non republicans to call it Derry you communist dictator's
Mi5 Marty or better known as Steaknife
Wee dying skinny martin😂
Wee dancing while crying while dying Billy
It's a pity he didn't join the juniors in the hunger strike but big men eat boot polishers are told do this they was sitting eating Sunday roast while Bobby was dying 😢💯