Sinn Féin Should Admit The IRA's Armed Struggle was Wrong, Unnecessary and Violated Human Rights

The outlawed Irish Republican Army murdered - and in many cases tortured and 'disappeared' - approximately 1,800 persons across Britain, Ireland, Europe and America - men, women and children - during its 'armed struggle' between 1969-2015, fully supported by its political twin, Sinn Féin. Following the cessation of most of its violence, the IRA and its 'Army Council' has emerged in the Sinn Féin political party which does not admit the IRA's thousands of human rights violations, does not condemn its murderous armed struggle and continues to commemorate and glorify IRA activities of murder and bombing.

Sinn Féin participates in democratic elections in Britain and the Republic of Ireland and seeks to benefit politically and financially from such arrangements while failing to address the thousands of human rights' violations of its paramilitary twin, the IRA. It has denied the reparation of truth to victims of IRA violence and has sought to equate paramilitary murderers with members of British and Irish security forces. Sinn Féin/IRA members are fully aware of the details of IRA atrocities in Northern Ireland during the past 40 years and must divulge details of these to victims without delay.