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Sinn Fein Presence In Residents Groups

6 March 1997

The involvement of Sinn Fein in so called Residents Groups opposing Orange Parades has been denounced as a continuing part of the campaign of Ethnic Cleansing against the Protestant people of Ulster.

Speaking to Orangemen in Portadown last night, George Patton, Executive Officer of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, said that R.T.E.'s Prime Time Programme had injected a degree of reality into the debate on parades.

He went on to say that "the orchestrated attempt to prevent peaceful parades is simply part of the process to ensure that any vestige of our faith or culture is removed from parts of this country.

The authorities who have in the past ignored claims by the Orange Order that the illegal protests against parades were Sinn Fein orchestrated must now accept their responsibilities and ensure that freedom of assembly and the right to process is upheld.

In terms of the situation in Portadown the local District Lodge have acted responsibly at all times and will continue to do so. They have given much in the past with regard to their parades and there is no more to give. The authorities must ensure their traditional route from public worship at Drumcree Parish Church".

At the same Meting a spokesman for County Armagh Grand Lodge stated that Sinn Fein's presence in the Residents Groups exposed the so called consent principle espoused by these groups. It is simply part of the propaganda war where a glib phrase is used by people who do not apply it themselves. Where was the consent for Tullyvallen, Kingsmills, Darkley .......?


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