Martina Anderson, the IRA certainly didn’t discriminate

On that day, daddy brought my sister and I up to Enniskillen to see the scene after the Enniskillen Poppy Day bombing. He said he didn’t want us to ever forget it.

I didn’t understand a lot of what was taking place around that time but I still regard it as a formative experience. I have never forgotten.

No one murdered or injured in Enniskillen was fighting ”a dirty war”.

They were remembering those who died for freedom. For that crime some decided that they deserved to die or suffer life-changing injuries.

No one murdered or injured in Enniskillen was ”involved in collusion”.

Those who bombed Enniskillen that day built their bomb in the safety of the Irish Republic, a state which facilitated the IRA campaign for 30 years, harbouring terrorists and providing them with safe haven to which to flee even when wanted for murder.

It wasn’t British troops or Paras who murdered and maimed the people of Enniskillen that day. Nor were those injured and maimed British troops or Paras.

No one was discriminated against in Enniskillen.

Pensioners, health care professionals, shop owners, husbands, fathers, sons, wives, mothers and daughters were all deemed targets.

Everyone in attendance at a memorial event was deemed a criminal for remembering. No one was excluded from the blast of the bomb or the falling rubble.

Samuel Morrison, TUV party worker, Dromore, Co Down

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