Sir, - Tom Oliver was murdered by the IRA in 1991. That murder was "justified" on the basis that Mr Oliver was an "informer". The word informer has been abused and corrupted by terrorist organisations over the years to justify many of their evil deeds. It became a shibboleth for treason, collaboration and betrayal of noble causes, harking back to times past. Time has moved on and this island has to move on. The desire for peace is universal. Allegiance to one flag or another can never justify the callous murder of men, women and children.
The Omagh atrocity is a crime against humanity and imposes on each and every one of us a moral duty to do everything in our power to bring its perpetrators to justice. Silence, ambivalence and inertia are the harbingers of evil and make each of us complicit in such barbarism. The eyes of the world are on us. The time has come for everyone to do their bit. The memory of Tom Oliver, the slaughtered innocents of Omagh and the many others before them deserve nothing less. - Yours, etc., Fergus Mullen,
Francis Street,
Dundalk,
Co Louth.