This is the letter UKIP has sent to the Parades Commission regarding the proposed IRA parade in Castlederg on the 11th Aug - please give the long suffering people of that area your support and write to the Parades commission [email protected] and demand that the parade is banned.
From UK Independence Party ( Northern Ireland Region)
To Northern Ireland Parades Commission
Ref : Proposed IRA commemoration Parade 11th August 2013.
Our office has received numerous complaints from people in the
Castlederg/ West Tyrone area who are deeply concerned regarding the
proposed West Tyrone Sinn Fein IRA Volunteer parade in Castlederg
planned for 11th August 2013.
The proposed parade is causing massive anxiety and distress to the
Protestant/Unionist minority in the area who believe that this parade
is designed to cause further hurt and pain and open old wounds given
that the IRA continually attacked Castlederg.
The IRA planted over 50 bombs in the town and killed 28 members of the
Protestant community and wounded/injured many others who still try to
manage the psychological and physical injuries that were inflicted on
them by the IRA.
It is therefore highly inappropriate, offensive and inflammatory for
Sinn fein to propose that IRA bombers who died as a result of their
own bomb are commemorated by a memorial parade through the town they
tried to destroy.
UKIP Northern Ireland respectfully requests that the proposed 11th
August Castlederg parade is banned in the interest of community
relations and in consideration of the Human rights of the Protestant
community who have already suffered a disproportionately high level of
attacks death and destruction even for Northern Ireland standards.
Yours Sincerely
Councillor Henry M Reilly
Chairman UKIP Northern Ireland.