Should we believe the IRA has actually decommissioned its weapons

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Should we believe the IRA has actually decommissioned its weapons?

The issue of the IRA decommissioning has been at the forefront of the news the past few weeks and there has been a great deal of scepticism questioning the validity of the IRA’s claim that they have put their weapons beyond use. As there is no evidence to back up the IRA’s claim the doubters will ask "How we can believe that the IRA has decommissioned its weapons if there is no hard photographic evidence?". This is a promising, hopeful time for peace in a country devastated by sectarian violence and the Republicans will argue that it is time for the Unionists to accept that the Republican movement is legitimate and democratic.

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There are many arguments as to whether or not we should believe that the IRA has truly puts its arms out of use but those two arguments are the primary opinions expressed by each party involved to put across their point. Unionists argue that they have no reason to believe an organisation that have spent thirty years to destroy their community and they have no reason to believe the word of terrorists and murderers when they say that they have destroyed everything. In my opinion I think this opinion is perfectly understandable but I feel it would be naïve on ...

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