When terrorists become statesmen

Those who elect to stand for office after having belonged to violent extremist groups will have a hard slog ahead of them to be accepted by the mainstream. I admire their courage but I do not envy their challenge.

Martin McGuinness was an Irish republican, a member of the Sinn Fein political party and, until he left politics, in part, because he was stricken with cancer, the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to early 2017. He was also, according to some, a terrorist.Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

April 3, 2017

OTTAWA—I see that Martin McGuinness died the other day. McGuinness was an Irish republican, a member of the Sinn Fein political party and, until he left politics in part because he was stricken with cancer, the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to early 2017. He was also, accord...

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