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A string of Irish and Northern Irish politicians have urged Karen Bradley, the Northern Ireland secretary, to quit after she claimed that killings committed by British soldiers and police during the Troubles were \u201cnot crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both nationalist and unionist politicians from the island of Ireland have been united in their condemnation of Bradley\u2019s remarks. Dr James Reilly, an Irish senator and former deputy leader of the Fine Gael party \u2013 now led by Republic of Ireland’s PM Leo Varadkar \u2013 has cast<\/a> doubt on whether she could ever \u201cregain the trust\u201d<\/em> of the families who suffered through the Troubles.<\/p>\n During Northern Ireland questions in parliament on Wednesday, Bradley initially told <\/a>MPs that over 90 percent of the killings during those years were carried out by terrorists, insisting that \u201cevery single one of those was a crime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Bradley went on to argue<\/a> that \u201cThe under 10% that were at the hands of the military and police were not crimes,\u201d<\/em> and were merely fulfilling their duties in an \u201cappropriate way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The secretary of state for Northern Ireland apologized on Thursday for making the incendiary comments, saying they were \u201cmisguided and ill-judged.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Troubles claimed around 3,500 lives on both sides from the 1960s until 1998, when thesecuring of the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of major conflict.<\/p>\n Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Subscribe<\/a> to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won\u2019t tell you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A string of Irish and Northern Irish politicians have urged Karen Bradley, the Northern Ireland secretary, to quit after she claimed that killings committed by British soldiers and police during the Troubles were \u201cnot crimes.\u201d Both nationalist and unionist politicians from the island of Ireland have been united in their condemnation of Bradley\u2019s remarks. Dr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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