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McGuinness Accuses Mowlam of "Bad Faith"Martin McGuinness, one of Sinn Fein's two MPs has criticised the Government for allowing the Drumcree Orange parade to go ahead and attacked the police and army for last night's violent clashes with civilians."I am disgusted and the nationalist community is seething with anger at the imposition of virtual martial law and the brutal fashion in which it was enforced by the RUC and British Army against the innocent people of the Garvagh Road," he said. "Mo Mowlam has learned her predecessors' lesson of bad faith negotiations well and quickly. She has promised publicly that she would deliver her decision personally to the Garvaghy residents. This she failed to do. "Instead, she followed the pattern of previous years and capitulated to threats from David Trimble and the Orange Order," Mr McGuinness said. "Ronnie Flanagan's admission that he made his decision based on information that Loyalist paramilitaries would kill Catholics is a stark admission of surrender and shows that the RUC cannot function impartially. He should resign and the RUC should be disbanded."
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