Noel was the P.R.O. of the Belfast Comhairle Ceanntair of the I.R.S.P., the R.A.C. representative on the National Smash H-Block Committee and P.R.O. of the R.A.C. Both Ronnie and Noel had been threatened with death many times - by the British Army, the R.U.C., the U.D.R. and Loyalist murder gangs. The initial reaction of many to the murders was that they were the work of loyalists acting in collusion with the "security" forces. Such collusion could have been necessary in order to obtain information on the security measures in the Bunting home and to escape - unhindered following the murders. However, in the light of recent information received by the I.R.S.P. and in the light of the recent S.A.S. raids in Twinbrook, the murders are more likely to have been the work of the S.A.S. The Irish Republican Socialist Party intends organising an independent investigation into the murders. We do not consider the R.U.C. as being in any way impartial or in any way capable of conducting an impartial investigation. Senior members of the R.U.C. Special Branch have said that the deaths of Ronnie and Noel were "joyous occasions" and that they would welcome the day when a "few more fenian bastards would be going to join them" Such bigotry reflects the past and present collusion of the R.U.C. with the loyalist murder gangs, collusion which also exists between these same gangs and the S.A.S. in order to terrorise the nationalist population into submissiveness. Despite the murders of Ronnie and Noel, and the murder of Miriam Daly, the I.R.S.P. remains detemmined to continue to organise and agitate for National Liberation and Socialism in Ireland. |
