Sinn Féin seeks resignation of Colombian prosecutor

SINN FÉIN yesterday demanded the resignation of Colombia’s Prosecutor General after he claimed there was considerable evidence linking three Irishmen to left-wing rebels in the country.

Sinn Féin national chairman Mitchel McLaughlin described as a “disgrace” comments by Luis Camilo Osorio ahead of the trial of James Monaghan, Martin McCauley and Niall Connolly, that hundreds of people were being massacred in Colombia by Marxist FARC rebels with mortar bombs which resembled the IRA’s. In comments which ignited a new row with supporters of the three republicans arrested last year, the Prosecutor General also claimed the Provisionals tested weapons while visiting rebels in the jungle.

“The techniques that the FARC have developed in recent years show that they have had technical assistance and used technology similar to those used by the IRA,” he said.