Most of the civilians MK killed were their own. The victims of their landmine campaigns were mainly poor black labourers.
War is not pretty, bad things are inevitable, itâs just very regrettable that the political institutions at the time left little alternative to the likes of the Provisional IRA and MK to come the rescue of their communities.
It takes some mental gymnastics to laud and eulogise Mandela as a hero while turning your nose up at militant republicanism in the north during the troubles.
This is a discussion about the contrast of MK and the Provos. It has been since @maroonandwhite was eulogising Mandela earlier when turning his nose up at Martin McGuinness. Thatâs what it has been about so if you donât know what youâre talking about then maybe itâs best to keep your uninformed opinions to yourself.
The alternative to planting bombs in the 06 was a loyalist pogrom, burning Catholics out of their homes and beating them to death with the aid of the state security forces as a government down south and a government across the sea watched on and shrugged their shoulders.
Youâre barking up the wrong tree here. Thereâs only so far you can be pushed until you fight back. The Southern and British Governments could not give one fuck about what was happening to Northern nationalists and they had to take this avenue themselves, alone. It was a situation brought upon by the inaction and lack of decency by the British and Free State governments.