INLA WILL NOT DECOMMISSION ITS ARSENAL DESPITE IRA MOVE Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - Danielle Ni Dhighe Andersonstown News 1 November 2001 INLA WILL NOT DECOMMISSION ITS ARSENAL DESPITE IRA MOVE The INLA will not be decommissioning its weapons. And if the need arises the republican organisation is prepared to go back to armed conflict. That was the tough message from IRSP spokesperson Paul Little. Speaking exclusively to the Andersonstown News he said the INLA will not be handing over any weapons either now or in the future. It comes a week after the IRA put some of its weapons beyond use, and only days after the Continuity IRA placed a bomb on a bus and told the driver to drive it to Woodbourne Barracks. "What the IRA or any other republican group do is a matter for themselves, we do not allow ourselves to be led by their actions," said Mr Little. "Sinn Fein have said the IRA are decommissioning to save the Good Friday Agreement. "The IRSP will not be advising the INLA to do the same, we can see no time in the future where we would make such a request. "We would ask why they are making massive efforts to save an agreement that is obviously not working. "Republican socialists from the outset have said they did not believe the agreement would work. "We said it would lead to an increase in sectarianism and sectarian attacks, those predictions have been borne out over recent months." The IRSP spokesman said nationalists are living in fear, schoolchildren are being attacked and terrified and Catholic homes are coming under nightly attack. "We see no time now or in the foreseeable future where we would contemplate advising the INLA to decommission weapons," he added. "The move by the Provisionals can only be seen as a political one to keep Sinn Fein in a government that has no relevance to the people on the ground." But the IRSP spokesperson added that the INLA ceasefire was still intact and he hoped that it would continue to hold. "What we have seen happen at Stormont is a power game with one party keen to establish itself as the dominant figure. "This process is giving nothing to the ordinary working class citizen, the split within the republican movement itself has only highlighted people's growing disappointment with the way the process has been moving. "The IRSP still think dialogue leading to a peace process is the only way forward, but it has to be a process that addresses the conflict and not just a power struggle. We need rights for the working class, not concessions to the establishment. Until then, there will never be a lasting resolution to our quandary." ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-11.05.01-04:14:14-24029