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Policeman killed in growing Northern Ireland violence
Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:37am EDT
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BELFAST (Reuters) - A policeman was shot dead in Northern Ireland late on Monday, the third killing in as many days, raising fears of a return of sectarian violence in the British province.
The officer was shot dead when he was out on patrol in Craigavon, 25 miles southwest of the province's capital Belfast, police said. On Saturday, two British soldiers were shot dead in an attack claimed by a Republican splinter group.
Many people in Northern Ireland, having lived through three decades of the "Troubles" before a peace deal between Protestant and Catholic factions was signed in 1998, were fearful on Tuesday that a new round of killings could follow.
A senior politician said dissident Republicans, opposed to the peace process in the province, were most probably responsible for Monday's shooting, although there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
"We are tonight staring into the abyss and I would appeal to people to pull back," said Dolores Kelly, a member of the province's policing board and the nationalist SDLP party.
"Do not let those who want to drag us into the past and offer us no future win tonight," Kelly told Reuters.
John O'Dowd, an assembly member for the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party, said the police were responding to a call for assistance and were entering the Lismore Manor estate, a largely Catholic area, when they were fired on from derelict ground.
"This is an attack on the peace process," he said. "This is a time for strong political leadership and cool heads."
David Simpson, a member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) who represents Craigavon, said: "I think for those, and I have to use the word scum, that carried out the attack tonight they have absolutely nothing to offer Northern Ireland."
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Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen appealed to all to reject violence. On Monday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, visiting the army base where the soldiers were shot dead, said: "The political process will not and can never be shaken."
The soldiers were killed at the entrance to their barracks in Antrim by gunmen from the Real IRA republican splinter group, hours before they were due to fly to Afghanistan.
The IRA, which fought British rule for decades and drew support from the Roman Catholic community, and pro-British Protestant guerrilla groups agreed to ceasefires under the Good Friday peace deal in 1998.
The agreement helped reduce sectarian violence, which killed more than 3,600 people in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.
The Real IRA wants an end to British rule and a united Ireland, but is shunned by the province's politicians who have put aside years of enmity to work together in a devolved national assembly. Continued...
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