Rocket Launch Find Raises Yet More Questions About Decommissioning
27 February 2013
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“If initial reports that the rocket launcher found in a house in west Belfast prove to be correct there are serious questions which demand an answer about the IRA’s supposed decommissioning.
“If it was indeed a Russian made RPG7 then it seems reasonable to assume that they were part of those brought to Northern Ireland by the IRA in shipments from Libya in the 1980s. Yet we are told that the IRA decommissioned all their weapons!
“Since the supposed decommissioning we have had discoveries of semtex and weapons which have been linked to the IRA. Today we appear to have had an IRA rocket launcher discovered in the Sinn Fein/IRA heartland of West Belfast.
“The security services need to come clean on this issue and tell us exactly where the RPG originated from. The preservation of the “peace process” cannot trump the need for truth and justice. Coming hard on the heels of what looked very like an IRA punishment shooting it is high time that those who partner Sinn Fein/IRA in government faced up to some very uncomfortable questions.”
