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January 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The statue of IRA leader Sean Russell
PressTV
Wed Jan 4, 2012
Northern Ireland’s Republican party Sinn Fein will probably support a campaign in Ireland to pardon 5000 men who deserted from the country’s forces to fight for Britain in World War II.
Sinn Fein has announced its readiness to endorse the measure in the Dail, the Irish Parliament, for a pardon, The Times reported.
During the war, Irish Republicans said that they would welcome German invaders as “friends and liberators”.
Johnathan O’Brien TD, Sinn Fein’s justice spokesman, said that the party’s position was still under review, but party officials spoke of the pardon as a matter of natural justice.
“Of course these men should be pardoned,” said a Sinn Fein spokesman. “These are old men who fought in a world war against fascism. They fought for a just cause. I don’t imagine anyone would claim they shouldn’t have the same rights as anybody else.”
Thousands of Irish citizens volunteered for the British forces during the war, but those who deserted the Irish forces to do so were penalised.
Under Emergency Powers Order 362, Eamon de Valera’s Government stripped 4983 soldiers of their military pensions and barred them from government jobs.
Campaigners for a pardon said that Sinn Fein’s support would help to reduce historic divisions in Ireland.
In July 1940, as the Battle of Britain began, the IRA said in An Phoblacht, the republican newspaper, that if “German forces should land in Ireland, they will land . . . as friends and liberators of the Irish people”.
As recently as 2003 Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein’s vice-president, spoke at a memorial rally for Sean Russell, the IRA leader who went to Berlin during the war to seek Hitler’s support.
See also:
How De Valera asked UK to smear IRA chief Sean Russell
Mike Thomson investigates secret Anglo-Irish co-operation against the IRA in the 1930s
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