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Article: NORTHERN IRELAND: GUNS AND GOVERNMENT.
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- Arena Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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A CONSTITUTIONAL COUP
The Irish `peace process' began with the 1994 IRA ceasefire and culminated in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. But the peace process is now in crisis. Northern Ireland Unionists, backed by the British Government, have walked away from the process. The point of contention is the Unionist demand that the IRA make the ceasefire permanent by handing over its armoury to its historical enemy, the British state. In November last year the Ulster Unionist Council agreed to participate in a Northern Ireland power-sharing assembly and cross-border institutions involving the Republic, but only if the IRA began to `decommission' its weapons. By this they ...
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