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callous and irresponsible attempt to misguide voters and exploit the trauma of those who survived or were bereaved by the massacre.


Paddy Ashdown

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PADDY ASHDOWN I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
PADDY ASHDOWN I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
PADDY ASHDOWN I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
PADDY ASHDOWN I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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PADDY ASHDOWN It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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