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Old 08-03-2010, 11:51 PM #14
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Originally Posted by Shasown View Post
It was Internment not internship. An internship is a period of training. I wouldnt call what the internees went through as training, would you? Yes, Faulkner and co had a lot to answer for. What really got to me over that was there were members of the civil rights movement interned even though they had denounced violence. And of course the fact it was loyalist paramilitaries who had started the violence and terrorism and none of them were touched.

I would say that Mandela has next to no blood on his hands compared to McGuinness.
No point getting like that. I put in the wrong word in my tiredness but you knew exactly what I meant. Although, in saying that internment did function as a type of internship for nationalists.

Mandela has blood on his hands. He created, financed and directed that organization and it's silly to assume that he had no role to play in it's functioning while he was in prison.
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