Northern Ireland’s peace process is not over
Compensation payments and amnesties cause fresh controversy
More than 3,500 people were killed in Northern Ireland during the 30 years of violence known as the Troubles. Although those killings stopped 26 years ago, the conflict has never truly ended. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement saw (pro-British) unionists accept that the political representatives of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the largest terrorist group, would enter government. Nationalists accepted that Northern Ireland would remain British unless a majority of its inhabitants voted for their cause of a united Ireland.
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