Ireland divided into two creating Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
The Ira was an Ireland terrorist group that wanted to erase the division of the two new Ireland's and go back to the traditional one. What was the problem with this group? the problem was that they were "terrorist" they hurt people (kids and older people) and they blamed and attack mainly England, because they thought that they were the reason of the division of Ireland, and the responsible for the economical problems they had.
IRA was supposed to disappear in 2005, in fact they made an arrangement to a cease-fire.
But, Why this kind of groups attack the people, and not directly the government? What can we do to prevent the creation of new groups like the Ira? Is the situation in Chile, in any way, similar to the one on Ireland? I think that there are lots of people that does not know how to act or how to express what they think, what they feel about the place where they live or the politics that rule them, or they just got tired of trying to be listen and realised that they would never be listen so they took action and start to attend and be part of groups like the IRA, feeling that they were doing things good, and that they were helping the people, like soldiers.
I also think that groups like the IRA are not the answer to all the problems that a country or a city can have, there are other ways to solve problems, and even if you have not been listen trough that way, then you have to form a bigger group and make the government hear, but the force will never be the way, the government has to change, has to improve and serve the people not the people serve the government.
Even though there are no longer active groups like the IRA in Chile, we have to keep in mind that we are going trough a difficult time, we are discovering that the people has a voice and that we can use it, the problem in Chile are the so called "encapuchados" they act in a wrong way, they can be students or just people from the street, or from who knows where that only want to destroy things and they only cause troubles, so although they are not a terrorist group they use violence and cause troubles for all the people that lives, or work near the streets where the mach is happening.We have to realise that violence is not the way to solve things, and if we have something to say, we can say it, not shouting or destroying places, nowadays we have the Internet, and that is a pretty good tool and chance to say whatever we want to say and create followers, so we have to be careful with the things we said and try to work for a better community.
Woah, I had no idea about this IRA group! When I think about Ireland, both Northern and Republic, i think of peaceful, first world countries. Maybe it is an stereotype, but you wouldn't expect terrorism in this kind of countries. But it is true what you say: this groups can start in any place where people are not happy with their country's politics. They are indeed forces to be reckoned with, and dangerous forces, that is. Governments should listen to what their people want.
ReplyDeleteAlthought maybe the majority of the population did want the division. In this case then it is just a matter of accepting it and knowing that violence is never an option.
Well, thanks for your interest in the post, and yeah, there are so much things that we don’t know about, well everything, in every country, I think, there are lots of battles between insiders, conflicts of interest, or for commonwealth, and maybe we will never understand them all, and maybe most of them have groups like the IRA, who knows?
DeleteBut again thanks