Livingstone. Speaks Out
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neutrality of the 26 Counties and said also that she was ‘horrified to see the heavy military presence’ in Belfast. Senator John Robb urged that all efforts be made to ensure that the whole island of Ireland should remain free of nuclear weapons. When Ken Livingstone, leader of the reater London Council remarked on RTE that what Britain had done to Ireland over the past 800 years was worse than Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, he provoked a wave of indignation fromfrom the British establishment and its lackeys like Lord Gerry Fitt.
The reality is that Living stone was_ historically correct in his evaluation. Not only is Britain still pursuing a policy of military and economic repression in Ireland but it bears a great deal of responsibility for genocide in Ireland over 800 years. The Famine was lreland’s holocaust. The level of Ireland’s population today bears wit« ness to the fact that it has yet to recover from this historic attempt at genocide.
People like Lord Fitt want to cover up the fact that while Britain’s methods may have changed its role is still that of a murderous colonial oppressor.