The IRA campaign was just as evil and anti-democratic as anything that China has engaged in

You rightly criticise in your Morning View on Wednesday the ’two leaders’ here at Stormont for their pathetically weak response to the use made by the Chinese representative in Northern Ireland of their ambiguous comment on China’s tyranny in Hong Kong.
By Ivan Foster
Published 13th Aug 2020, 16:34 BST
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(The editorial can be read here: ‘Anything less than full support from Northern Ireland’s leaders for Hong Kong against Chinese repression would be a betrayal of its brave people,’ August 12)

However, how can we expect anything more forthright from Stormont leaders when the republican movement was engaged in a tyranny every bit as wicked as that employed by China in Hong Kong?

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The IRA campaign which began 50 years ago, may not match in measure the campaign of China but it was just as evil and anti-democratic as anything that China has engaged in. The cruelty, violence, lies, deceit, chicanery and two-faced hypocrisy which mark the Chinese activities in Hong Kong are a mere adopting of the tactics of the republicans with whose political representatives Arlene Foster’s DUP is now in coalition!

It would be difficult therefore for these two ‘ladies’ to condemn that which is a mere facsimile of that which one of their parties supported and the other’s party cravenly capitulated to in order to get power.

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd), Kilskeery, Co. Tyrone

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