IRA Confirms Some Dissidents Resigned
Outlawed IRA guerrillas said Friday that dissidents have left the organization in a dispute over the peace process but insisted that the nationalists’ truce is not in jeopardy.
The Irish Republican Army and its political arm, Sinn Fein, were emphatic that the dissidents were few in number.
Hard-liners in the republican movement are said to fear that Sinn Fein’s decision to accept a set of peace principles as its ticket to peace talks on the disputed British province of Northern Ireland could lead to a surrender of IRA arms.
The IRA issued a statement to the Irish News, a Belfast nationalist paper, saying it had lost “a small number of personnel.” Media reports said 20 key guerrillas, including at least two senior figures, had resigned from the organization.
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