Republican strategy behind Maze project
THE proposals for the development of a Conflict Resolution Centre at the Maze, originally Long Kesh, is an obvious strategy by militant republicanism to tattoo their dirty struggle in the body British corporate.
They see it as a British concentration camp used for the suppression of an Irish struggle and any resultant loyalist response. It does not take much imagination to visualise the videos, commentary, trinkets, games, large screen recorded speeches, photographs of prisoners, former combatants as tourist guides against the background of play areas for children, restaurants and shops.
This first stage of course needs the refurbishment of the hospital which was just another arm of the occupying Anglo-Saxons and the prison cells where young men craved for freedom and where they felt constrained to die a painful death under an Iron dictator.
My description is very amateurish compared to what the republican movement will insist on when the thing gets rolling as a monument to educate the world on the Irish struggle against oppression.
If you ever visited any concentration or holding camp in Europe or South Africa, the main themes are the reason for the struggle, the response to the struggle, the violations and trials and key people who are worthy of sainthood.
Another message is to avoid the same again. Surely I don’t mean a struggle against British imperialism?
Cllr David Barbour
Coleraine
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 07:32 PMToday's republicans are realising that the story of Northern Ireland is a struggle between Catholic Irish and protestant Irish. All Irish though.
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