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IRA move spurs efforts on peace deal
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-30 07:22
Pulling down the eight hill-top watchtowers along the Irish border is one of
the actions long demanded by Irish nationalists to normalise life in a province
slowly emerging from a 30-year conflict in which 3,600 people were killed.
Changes on policing will also be important before a suspended Belfast-based
assembly, set up under the Good Friday deal and in which Protestants and
Catholics together run Northern Irish affairs, gets back on its feet.
The IRA's historic mistrust of the mainly Protestant police force was always
used to justify its armed presence in its Catholic strongholds and Sinn Fein has
so far refused to take seats to which it is entitled on the province's policing
board.
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