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Northern Irish Protestant group pledges to end violence
| Faith, and I believe 'em! If you can't trust the Ulster Defense Association who can you trust? |
Northern Ireland's main pro-British paramilitary group, The Ulster Defence Association (UDA), has pledged to end all violence and work towards complete disarmament. "From today the UDA will desist from all military activity," Tommy Kirkham, a spokesman for the UDA's political wing, told a remembrance ceremony in Belfast for the soldiers who fought in World War I and World War II. "The strategy of the organisation will become one of community development, job creation, social inclusion, and community politics," he said. "From today we are prepared to move into a process. Our commitment to that process will be to work towards a day when there will be no need for a UDA," said Mr Kirkham, spokesman for the Ulster Political Research group. Mr Kirkham was speaking to more than 2,000 UDA members in the loyalist Ratchtoole estate on the northern outskirts of Belfast.
Posted by: Fred 2004-11-15 |
