A group with links to the Real IRA, a splinter group that killed two British soldiers in Northern Ireland, has said there will be no end to violence in the province while it is under British control.
"If the conflict in Ireland is to end once and for all, so too must the illegal British claim to sovereignty over the six counties," The 32 County Sovereignty Movement said in an emailed statement seen by Reuters on Friday. "We seek peace, but we recognise clearly that this can only be achieved if true parity is brought to a negotiations' process," said the statement from the small group widely believed to be a political ally of the Real IRA.
The Real IRA shot dead two soldiers last weekend in the deadliest act of violence in Northern Ireland in over a decade. Their attack was followed two days later by the killing of a policeman by another splinter group, the Continuity IRA. The shootings shattered the relative peace in the province since a 1998 peace deal ended an armed campaign by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to reunite the six counties of Northern Ireland with the 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland.
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