32 County Sovereignty Movement
14/07/2009
32CSM Refute Kelly’s Claims
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement absolutely refute Gerry Kelly’s assertions that members of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, in concert with other republicans, were ‘sent’ into the Ardoyne area to create conflict and we challenge him to produce proof to support this outlandish claim.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement did have members, from Ardoyne, at the protest to observe the overreactions of the British police in Ireland. Kelly’s comments are deliberately phrased to mislead the wider community into believing that the show of resistance by the people of Ardoyne was cynically manipulated by people from outside the area and thus misrepresented the feelings of the people from Ardoyne. The 32CSM reject this and we fully commend the people of Ardoyne, and neighbouring nationalist areas in their efforts to repel the RUC/PSNI from imposing a sectarian hate march in an area where it is clearly not wanted. We do however agree with Minister Kelly on one point, it was people from outside the area who caused this situation, we do not imagine many of the Orangemen or RUC/PSNI personnel were from Ardoyne.
