Republican parades not criminal acts - RSF

national | miscellaneous | press release Sunday April 22, 2007 20:50 by True Republican

The Provos have denounced Republican Commemorations as being unlawful and illegal assemblies.

REPUBLICAN PARADES NOT CRIMINAL ACTS – RSF

In the Belfast News Letter of Saturday, 21st April, the Provos commented that “the vast, vast majority of Republicans (sic) attended legally arranged [Provo] parades over Easter.” Clearly the “laws” the Provos are referring to are the diktats of the English government.

Republican Sinn Féin rejects the Provo description of Republican Commemorations as criminal acts. Furthermore, the actions of those who not only applied to the British Crown Forces for permission to march, but also used these platforms to pressurise Nationalists into embracing their total collaboration with English rule in Ireland, amounts to nothing less than the desecration of the graves of Ireland's Patriot Dead.

Do the Provos agree with Fermanagh DUP councillor Bert Johnston that those involved in Republican parades such as that in Roslea should feel the full rigour of alien laws? And where does Michelle Gildernew – who was so vociferous on Radio Ulster's Talk Back programme during the election campaign – stand on this issue and the arrests and charging of three people accused of Republican activity in Lurgan last week?

True Republicans will never apply to enemy forces for the right to honour our Patriot Dead, and will continue to commemorate all those who gave their lives in the Cause of Irish Freedom with dignity and respect. The Provos, on the other hand, should have the honesty and decency to stay away from the graves of those who died serving the All-Ireland Republic and fighting British Occupation.

ENDS