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Northern Ireland’s former deputy first minister Sinn Féin politician Martin McGuinness has died aged 66.
McGuinness became Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister in 2007, died in the early hours of Tuesday in a Londonderry hospital after suffering from a rare heart condition . He died with his family by his side.
No-one knows how many people Martin McGuinness killed, directly or indirectly.
As a senior commander in the Provisional IRA for many years, there is no doubt there was blood on his hands.
Security sources say he went on to become chief of staff of the organisation from the early 1980s, right through until the end of the IRA’s campaign of violence.
Nothing happened in Derry without him knowing.
Prime Minister Theresa May said although she could never “condone the path he took in the earlier part of his life, Martin McGuinness ultimately played a defining role in leading the republican movement away from violence”.
“In doing so, he made an essential and historic contribution to the extraordinary journey of Northern Ireland from conflict to peace,” she added.
Former US president Bill Clinton said that as Sinn Féin’s chief negotiator, Mr McGuinness’ “integrity and willingness to engage in principled compromise were invaluable in reaching the Good Friday Agreement”.
Former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Tebbit, who was injured and whose wife was paralysed by an IRA bomb in Brighton’s Grand Hotel in 1984, described Mr McGuinness as “a coward”.
“The reason he suddenly became a man of peace, was that he was desperately afraid that he was going to be arrested and charged with a number of murders.”
Julie Hambleton, whose sister, Maxine, was one of the 21 people killed in the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974, said “with his death, the truth is buried”.
“Mr McGuinness was very fortunate because he was able to live a full life unlike my sister, unlike 20 other victims and unlike so many other thousands of people who were murdered.
source BBC