UK - Major Condemns IRA Bomb

(15 Jun 1996) T/I: 10:48:11
Prime Minister John Major called on Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, on Saturday (15/6) to condemn what he called "a callous act of terrorism" in the aftermath of a bomb blast in the northern city of Manchester that injured nearly 70 people.
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LONDON, UK 15/6:
John Major out of number 10 Downing Street
SOT of major saying "people now know why sinn fein aren't involved in the peace talks. until such time as there is a complete and unequivocal ceasefire from the ira i think people will watch very clearly if there is a clearcut and unequivocal condemnation of this action today by mr adams and sinn fein. i expect there to be so and i hope he will do it swiftly;
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[@andrewhayes9913]

You wat John

[@andrewshepherd1579]

Took around 40 years for the British Government to give a comprehensive apology about Bloody Sunday when their army murdered 14 innocent people in their own neighbourhood.

[@jasonlaverty6074]

It took the IRA or Irish republican rerrorists ! To kill a lot more in a lot less time !!!

[@lewis3102]

Wasn't innocent though was they hiding terrorists and supporting terrorists is hardly innocent

[@sudocreme5080]

lewbcon those unarmed innocent civilians who were killed on Bloody Sunday were on an anti-internment march when they were shot in the back and on the ground by terrorist paratrooper scum.

[@bleaklow254]

meanwhile the same British government is sending its own soldiers to court for alleged crimes in NI while it lets PIRA 'volunteers' (criminal terrorists) get amnesties, that's how unfair on Irish Republicans we Brits are.

[@conorgilsenan3821]

13*

[@conorgilsenan3821]

No apologies

[@kennyryan625]

Conor Gilsenan Just like Al Qaeda don’t apologise for 9/11. Terrorism is terrorism. Blood on your hands.

[@conorgilsenan3821]

@@kennyryan625 we didn't get apologise for ur genocide on us. U really think u cant be terrorists just because ur a legitimate army. British army were just as bad if not worse then the IRA

[@kennyryan625]

Conor Gilsenan “Ur genocide on us”? I’m from Tipperary you eejit 😂 All this showed was that instead of targeting the soldiers and paras in the North that were causing the problem, the Provos would prefer to go to England and kill civilians. How does that help anybody in Derry, Enniskillen or Dungannon? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@conorgilsenan3821]

@@kennyryan625 it shows the British that their innocent blood will be spilt the same way the spilt our innocent blood. The ppl in the borth are mainly ex-British army

[@kennyryan625]

Conor Gilsenan The guys killed in this weren’t even British. The logic makes less and less sense the more you evaluate it

[@silversteel6312]

Merely froth and bubble John.

[@michaelstokes6786]

For all those who are trashing the ira just remember why they started imagine if someone came into your house and started to dictate you and tell you what to do where to sleep what would you guys do id like to think you would fight back wouldnt you

[@lucastaylor2321]

Up the kneecap

[@IR-Insights]

I wouldnt respond by killing random people who live in the same neighborhood as that person.

[@invisibleman4827]

Even ex-IRA men would call bullshit on your lies. They were extremists who saw violence as a first resort and never a last resort.