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Wed 09 Sep 2008DUP says Maze film was platform for republican boasting
THE MAKERS of the BBC1 documentary about the 1983 Maze prison escape were more interested in providing republicans with a platform on which to boast of their deeds than in a proper and balanced assessment of the escape, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds has claimed.
The North Belfast MP and Stormont Finance Minister said innocent victims of the 38 prison escapers portrayed in the documentary "will feel this was the glamorising of criminality".
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