As to the marching season... I am convinced that to ban marching, though emotionaly I would agree with it, and also am against Orange parades though nationalist areas, at this point, I don't think that is a solution.
I am convinced that the solution is a well organized well coordinated process of reconcilliation as happened in South Africa. If after ackowleging history, we can have real understanding and forgiveness, then one can emagine marches with completely new meanings, where orange marches could be welcomed into nationalist nieghborhoods.
But at present, there a numerous reasons that the powers that be do not want us to get to know each other and the real underlieing history of the past decades in Irish history. It has to start in the communities, and I don't doubt that there will be high placed attempts to stop such a process. But, peace does not just happen. It takes the affirmative act of making peace. And that can't wait for hte government ot discover an interest n peace, the governments don't know how to make peace becasue they are too busy hiding the mounds of skellatons in their many closits.
We are seeing here at mudcat how the people can make peace through reasoned and intence talk (well writing...) think of how much better it can work face to face...
Fiolar, you are in deed right, in fact even in the German run concentration camp, the bulk of the guards were Polish, Ukranian, and others, the Czech Republic began killing Roma before the nazificaiton of their laws at Leti and now have, in violaiton of internaitonal convention, put a pig farm on the site of the Leti death camp, a great insult to the Jews and Roma who were murdered there.
Make peace, folks... and sing truth to power,
Larry