Crime and conflict

I THINK there’s a large hole in Gordon Kennedy’s argument (Irish Examiner letters, May 22) that an IRA hunger striker was not a criminal just because he got 30,000 votes in an election.

Crime and conflict
Mon, 29 May, 2006 - 01:00
Letters

Hitler, Arafat, Sharon, Bush and many more, got far more than 30,000 votes, but still they were (are) war criminals.

Edward O’Raghallaigh

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