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| Castlederg march: DUP meets Parades Commission | Castlederg march: DUP meets Parades Commission |
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| A DUP delegation is to meet the Parades Commission later to voice its opposition to a republican parade in Castlederg, County Tyrone. | A DUP delegation is to meet the Parades Commission later to voice its opposition to a republican parade in Castlederg, County Tyrone. |
| The Tyrone Volunteers Day event is scheduled to take place on Sunday 11 August. | The Tyrone Volunteers Day event is scheduled to take place on Sunday 11 August. |
| It commemorates two IRA members killed in 1973 when the bomb they were transporting exploded. | |
| DUP West Tyrone MLA Thomas Buchanan, who will lead Tuesday's delegation, said the parade was "obnoxious". | DUP West Tyrone MLA Thomas Buchanan, who will lead Tuesday's delegation, said the parade was "obnoxious". |
| "Twenty-eight innocent people were murdered by terrorists in the Castlederg area," he said. | "Twenty-eight innocent people were murdered by terrorists in the Castlederg area," he said. |
| "The innocent victims of Castlederg, many of whom have never received justice, should not be expected to accept PIRA terrorists being glorified and hailed as heroes. | "The innocent victims of Castlederg, many of whom have never received justice, should not be expected to accept PIRA terrorists being glorified and hailed as heroes. |
| "I have written to the chief constable asking him to recognise the toxic impact this event will have on community relations within the area. I look forward to his reply." | "I have written to the chief constable asking him to recognise the toxic impact this event will have on community relations within the area. I look forward to his reply." |
| Ulster Unionist assembly member Ross Hussey, and his brother, Councillor Derek Hussey, discussed the parade with the Parades Commission's Peter Osborne last week. | |
| "This is a community which suffered greatly at the hands of IRA terrorism and which still lives with the legacy of having to come to terms with the 29 murders, 50 plus bombs and the loss of potential that hit the area as the ethnic cleansing policies of the IRA and their republican colleagues took effect," Mr Hussey said. | |
| "The two individuals being 'commemorated' blew themselves up in a car bomb which exploded en route to Castlederg. This was no brave patriotic action, it was an act of terrorism against neighbours. | |
| "If Sinn Féin really wants to move forward, then they should take this parade away from Castlederg or better still, abandon it all together." | |
| Sinn Féin has previously said it was "not a contentious parade". | Sinn Féin has previously said it was "not a contentious parade". |
| "It emanates from a nationalist area of the town, it will go through the Diamond which is a shared space, and the organisers are sensitive to that," MLA Declan McAleer said. | "It emanates from a nationalist area of the town, it will go through the Diamond which is a shared space, and the organisers are sensitive to that," MLA Declan McAleer said. |