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...July 1, moderate unionist leader David Trimble resigned his post as first minister of the coalition home-rule government of Northern Ireland with the intention of forcing the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to begin disarming (as it had promised to do under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement). Now that the IRA has finally begun disarming, the hope is that Trimble can win today’s election, return to his job and continue leading the peace process...
Unfortunately, the extreme unionists withdrew their support for the agreement during the negotiation for the IRA’s disarmament. Hard-line unionists, led by Rev. Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), want to prevent the peace process from continuing by blocking Trimble’s reelection today. In effect, if he is not reelected, the region will return to rule from London and the IRA might stop disarming. It is widely agreed that Trimble is the only man who can get enough support on both sides to be First Minister...
...wake of the horrific terrorist attacks on America, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is now encountering a more resolute, determined opposition. This past Saturday, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader David Trimble delivered an ultimatum to Sinn Fein, the IRA’s political wing. Trimble announced that unless the paramilitary group began “a credible process of decommissioning” its weapons in accordance with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the UUP would withdraw its three ministers from the executive and abandon Northern Ireland’s unstable alliance government...
...distorted by hatred, hurling curses, stones and even a pipe bomb in the direction of children evoked uncomfortable comparisons with the desegregation conflicts of the American South in the 1960s. It was too much even for some longtime veterans of the Troubles. Billy Hutchinson, a leader of the Progressive Unionist Party who once was a member of a loyalist paramilitary group, said the attacks made him "ashamed to be a loyalist...
...distorted by hatred, hurling curses, stones and even a pipe bomb in the direction of children evoked uncomfortable comparisons with the desegregation conflicts of the American south in the 1960s. It was too much even for some longtime veterans of the Troubles. Billy Hutchinson, a leader of the Progressive Unionist Party who once was a member of a loyalist paramilitary group, said the attacks made him "ashamed to be a loyalist...