Northern Ireland stands united despite killings »
Posted By bruhaha 9 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsEven hard-liners appear to have lost their appetite for violence and retaliation after a decade of peace. The killers of two soldiers and a policeman are called 'traitors.'
By Henry Chu
March 12, 2009
Reporting from Belfast, Northern Ireland -- The extremists who tried to sabotage peaceful coexistence in Northern Ireland by killing three British security personnel over the last week may have wound up strengthening it instead.
Residents and leaders of this tiny province, including thousands of Protestants and Roman Catholics who took to the streets Wednesday, have united in condemning the shootings, producing scenes that have left even jaded observers agog at how much has changed here since the end of the so-called Troubles a decade ago.
There was the sight of top government ministers Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, two men who would once have spat at each other -- or worse -- across the sectarian divide, standing side by side demanding that the gunmen be brought to justice. McGuinness, who supported the killing of British soldiers during his time as an Irish Republican Army commander, then shocked everyone by denouncing the attackers as "traitors," an epithet fraught with historical meaning here.
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the next revolution is going to be a spiritual one.
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