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Northern Ireland: Two Ex-Terrorists and the Cold Peace
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Northern Ireland: Two Ex-Terrorists and the Cold Peace
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In Northern Ireland, Joe Doherty and Peter McGuire belonged to armed, feuding underground groups. Both spent many years behind bars. Today they work with children and youth. They never met in Northern Ireland. At the Peace Counts Forum in Berlin, they saw each other for the first time. |
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Today his thoughts always wander back to a certain dead man who had changed Joe's life. His name was Richard Westmacott, and he was a British elite soldier stationed in Belfast. On May 5, 1980 the captain was shot, after turning just 28 years old. One of the three snipers was Joe Doherty."We were all responsible, and I am sorry for each person who had to die." Joe Doherty |
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Northern Ireland Podcast
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