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Thread #97176   Message #1911618
Posted By: Teribus
17-Dec-06 - 06:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: Soldiers Convicted of Crimes in NI
Subject: RE: BS: Soldiers Convicted of Crimes in NI
Oh, sorry, Divis, forgot to mention the following.

With regard to PIRA Officers Commanding - as an old-boy of the organisation maybe Divis could tell us who was Officer Commanding in Belfast the night that Jean McConville was beaten? Who was Officer Commanding in Belfast the following night when she was taken to be tortured, executed and mutilated? The Officer Commanding PIRA in Belfast at the time, the man who would have had to have given the OK for the operation was a certain Gerry Adams.

Now Gerry, god bless 'im, actually told Jean's eldest daughter Helen that he couldn't possibly have had anything to do with her mothers abduction and killing because he was in jail at the time of her slaughter - NOT TRUE - fancy that Gerry Adams telling lies, oh dear - Fact of the matter was that Gerry Adams Officer Commanding was not interned until July, 1973, seven months after the murder of Jean McConville.

That good people is why the PIRA will continue to lie and deny with regard to the circumstances of Jean McConville's dissappearance and death. Because, you see, nobody was ever charged so the crime is still on the books. The murder of Jean McConville is not swept under the carpet by any Good Friday Agreement, anyone involved in her death can still do time for her murder - including the man that ordered it.

This article from an SDLP Spokesman also indicates why the PIRA will never talk about Jean McConville:

MAGINNESS: KILLING OF JEAN MCCONVILLE A WAR CRIME

SDLP Justice Spokesperson Alban Maginness said republicans cannot continue to evade the truth of what happened to Jean McConville.

Mr Maginness said: "It is just not enough to say the killing of Jean McConville was wrong or should not have happened. Nor can Mitchell McLaughlin excuse her death because it happened in the context of conflict.

"She was killed 'without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all judicial guarantees which are generally recognised as indispensable', and that constitutes a war crime in the definition of the International Criminal Court. The Provisional IRA is subject to war crimes law just as much as the British government.

"A second war crime occurred by the IRA's ' refusal to acknowledge deprivation of [her] freedom or to give information on [her] fate or whereabouts'.

"Sinn Fein claims to support international law, the International Criminal Court and the International Convention on Human Rights Its leader should make clear whether this support applies to all crimes or only ones which happen far away or are the responsibility of the British forces."