Victims go to Spain to issue ETA warnings

Kenny Donaldson, director of services at the South East Fermanagh Foundation, says he has travelled to San Sebastian in the wake of a recent high-profile but – in his eyes – qualified apology from ETA which only applied to a selection of its victims.

“SEFF will be cautioning the Spanish government and others within the public policy arena from directly exporting the Northern Ireland ‘peace and political process model’ – processes which are misunderstood and often mis-sold internationally,” he said.

The outcome of Northern Ireland’s peace process has been the empowerment of terrorism and its political annexes, he said.

“This has meant prisoner releases, a definition of victim which turns right and wrong on its head; equating perpetrators with their innocent victims, Royal Prerogatives of Mercy, on the run assurance letters for those previously wanted for terrorist offences and the elevation of SF/PIRA as a political party where they now are effectively ‘the establishment’.”