Guth & Tuairim, Éanair/Féabhra 1983

Peace with Justice - Le Joe Carr,· Junior, Falcarrach 8 A few days ago I came across an advertisement in a local newspaper. the North, Nothing peculiar about that, you may say. But in that man with a rifle, and the caption above him read "Work for Feace, 11 work for a just peace with a gun in one 1 s hand? With of course the I'd like answered. It was to join the Ulster Defence Regiment in advert. there was a sketch portraying a U.D.R. The thought that dawned on me was - how can one exception of a just war. That is one question People throughout the world today are talking and yearning for peace. First let us ask ourselves - What is peace? The answer, according to my dictionary, is: "calm, freedom from war, quietness of mind, peacable, disposed to peace, a peacemaker. 11 The Bible tells us- "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." There is peace needed throughout the entire world. Perhaps more needed today than ever. There are a lot of things which keep the pathway to peace blocked. Here are just a few examples: The Hiroshima disaster in Japan, near the end of the last World War. America dropped the Atomic Bomb, and the blast wiped out two-thirds of that city and killed nearly one hundred thousand people, on August 6th, 1945. There are people there today still dying from the effects. We must never allow a thing such as that ever to happen again. But how? The large nations have the A-bomb and the H-bomb. Man in his own weakness created them. But we must try and stop those nations from using them. Nearer home. In fGct, in our own country, there is a need for peace. Counties. wHAT IS JU:;n:;~? A peace with justice in the Six Northern That peace '.<lith justice was being kept from the people by the establishment, the British Army and illegal organisations Ho,; that we 1 ve reached thi s point we may ask ourselves-vhat is justice? Answer-equality; being fair, right, and proper, The Establishment ,,1as unjust and unfair in the extreme when they introduced internment without trial. The Br i tish Ar~y and the R.U.C. had the power to lift and interri any person for any period of time under .the Special c . . Powers Act, It meant that the victims would be imprisoned without a trial, warrant or judgement. It is a negation of justice Rnc1 perversion of the rule of law, .there.fore blocking the way to peace because of i ts injustice. The brutality of the internment camps was a form of violence and injustice. The British Army vere sent to the North in 1969 as a. peacek~eping force. How long did ttey remain such a force? Bloody Sunday is one example. Violence will .lifiiig-mc .lilsting peace, Problems of injustice aren 1 t going to be solved by fighting. The keeping of hurmn and _civ.:\.1 rights from people is unjust and blocking the way to peace. Human rights are violated by race Rncl religious ciiscrimination by governments that consider that man exists for the State, not the State for man. STXl'BEEHT BY ill:.:ihO!-::i A statement on civil violence a few years ago by the Bishops of Eneland and Wales said: "Many use force to achieve reform. I t will not do merely t o conderr~ tr.e use of violence against authority, since evidently those in authority may themselves be guilty of worse violence in the legislation they enforce. This question therefore, cannot be answered simply by indiscriminate condeJTl.nation, It is obvious that in some cases citizens can never obtain justice by peaceful , democratic means. Where protest agai nst injustice has been stilled by promises of redress which remain unfulfilled, it is governments who bear the heaviest responsibility for violence which may break out. The logical conclusion to civil violence is civil war. The bitterness between brothers,_ the scars and hatred left by civil war, remain for generations. We must cherish freedom, which depends on just laws and true democracy• 11 Each of us must make some contribution to peace, and true peace begins in our own hearts. We must 'Work to make others get their just rights, We must banish from our hearts all thoughts of hatred, bitterness and revenge. h::AC£ NUl' Id·O&':>IBL}; , To work for peace is very hard i ndeed-impossible? No. It needs patience , perseverance, straighness, honesty and .f irrr~es s to create the basic foundations of peace, and to eliminate injustice, and remove hostility and fear, A l ot n f conferences ar e broken because different ·parties believe that they alone have all the answers to the problems. A ne •cc er~al:er must work to bring harmony, trust and co-operation. Energy to achieve the common good of all, and se– cure the human rights of each person, There can be no lasting peace in the world unless there is peace in the her,.rtE of men. No one can work for peace bi breaking God's law and proclaiming their own. ::it, h+,r ick changed all the pagans in Ireland to Chris:tians by usine these methods, not by gun or bomb. The I.R.A. should. change their revolution into a mass peaceful political one, and achieve victory, peace and justice. "W e can mwer find .peace in violence, only in a spirit of brotherhood" • " It shouldn't be hard to see your Lawyer- he' s .in the next cell~" . Buaiteoirf c6mortas litriu a reachtail Scoil Chonaill, An Bunbeag. Cul (~ chle ) I S;osa~ TI Bri an, ~ich~ll~ ~ic Pha~d~n, Terr~ Nf Sh~illeabhain, Fionnuala Nic Phaidin, Padra~g Hac Iont~~gh, Muu~s Mac Su~bhne, N~oclas 0 Dochartaigh, Sean 0 Donnabhain. 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