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A musical about the late John Hume has been playing in Derry\u2019s Guildhall \u2013 Beyond Belief<\/em><\/a>, it\u2019s called. Hume may have won a Nobel peace prize in 1998 and the Martin Luther King award in 1999, but you know someone has really arrived, historically speaking, when they\u2019ve gone and made a musical about them. They also unveiled a stately bust of the Derry man in the Leinster House home of the Oireachtas the other week. In London, an exhibition celebrating his life is running in Europe House on Smith Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement is being celebrated this Easter, and the organisers aren\u2019t letting the absence of a power-sharing administration get in the way of a good get together. To that end, deploying Hume to embody the moment has been helpful. He\u2019s become the patron saint of peace agreements. No better man, you may say. Hume, however, is a saint who comes complete with his own particular strain of sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the late 1990s, shortly after the signing of the North\u2019s peace agreement, Hume invited Raytheon weapons to set up shop<\/a> in his Derry constituency. As the company routinely undertook work for the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Hume advised that this be referred to in public as \u2018government contracts<\/a>.\u2019 Rolling out the red carpet at the Guildhall in August 1999, Hume proclaimed that the multinational arms merchant would \u2018be warmly welcomed by all of our citizens\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March 2003, during the British-US invasion of Iraq, a Raytheon manufactured HARM missile smashed into a Baghdad market, killing 62 civilians<\/a>. While Hume was subdued about the violence, his fellow citizens decided that complicity in war crimes was too high a price for a smattering of jobs. A monthly vigil was held outside the Raytheon plant, a die-in was staged at the Guildhall, Free Derry wall was shrouded in black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Israel\u2019s use of Raytheon-manufactured weapons in the 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a group of locals occupied the plant, throwing computers out windows. The anti-war activists were arrested, condemned by Hume\u2019s Social Democratic & Labour Party then later acquitted in court. The campaigners won in the end, Raytheon withdrew from Derry<\/a> in ignominy but at Easter 2023 our social condition is still a rotten one, defined by the politics of the trade-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business is booming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chris Heaton-Harris, the MP for Daventry, the man whose chief qualification for being handed the job of Britain\u2019s direct ruler in the North of Ireland may have been that his kids got him a Van Morrison album one Christmas, unveiled a history textbook in Belfast recently as part of the celebrations. \u2018Thanks to the Belfast-Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland\u2019s young people have grown up in peace and safety, looking forward to a future of hope and opportunity,\u2019 Heaton-Harris recently intoned<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Boke\u2019 is what we call vomit in Belfast, boke is what I can taste at the back of my mouth when I read the above words. But it\u2019s not Chris\u2019 fault; this is what politicians do, they lie to kids before being whisked off to do business with decrepit adults. Sometimes this business is done in arms factories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preeminent weapons manufacturer in Belfast is the French company Thales. When Thales gets a new order, they usually include a happy-clappy quote<\/a> from our direct ruler in a press release. Rishi Sunak was in the Thales\u2019 plant last year playing with rocket launchers \u2013 next-generation light anti-tank weapons to get down with the lingo \u2013 many of them destined to kill Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Boris Johnson had been in Thales a few months before that. \u2018Things are going gangbusters,\u2019 Boris declared in a promotional video<\/a> from the plant. Whatever the fuck that means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our statesmen are hucksters willing to bargain our souls against the profit margins on missiles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For their part, the company is dead proud of our city and what we\u2019ve managed to become together: \u2018Through the design and production of high precision, high volume effectors and fire control systems, as well as the integration of weapons onto tactical platforms, Belfast has developed into a centre of excellence for Thales\u2019 air defence and surface attack solutions<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 2022, three NGOs \u2013 the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Mwatana for Human Rights and Sherpa International \u2013 filed a lawsuit<\/a> in a Paris court charging Thales, among others, with complicity in war crimes committed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The complaint documents numerous Coalition airstrikes targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, including 26 airstrikes that unlawfully killed or injured civilians, and destroyed or damaged schools, hospitals, and other protected property, which may constitute potential war crimes and crimes against humanity,\u2019 the NGOs stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the British-backed war on Yemen began in late 2014, there have been at least 7,055 air strikes on civilian targets, according to the Yemen Date Project<\/a>, although it is possible that the actual number is closer to 15,000. None of this would have been possible without Thales supplying the navigation and targeting systems used to guide planes and drop bombs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the period from 2012 to 2022, the public body Invest Northern Ireland provided a total of \u00a39.1 million to Thales<\/a>, including \u00a33.5 million for \u2018research into high precision technologies\u2019. Globally, the company has a record backlog of orders and its report<\/a> for last year crows that the \u2018geopolitical situation is driving sustained budget growth in main Thales geographies.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A murder machine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden, meanwhile, is on his way over to see us. The US president wants to celebrate the peace with us. He announced his travel plans while standing in a San Diego naval base, his mate Rishi beside him, fresh from promising the construction of nuclear submarines for Australia. He’s bound to visit a school or two when he\u2019s here, shoot the shit about peace, then take himself down to the docks, visit the Titanic Museum, call in to Harland & Wolff to hear about the new age warships they\u2019re building for the Royal Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now part of Team Resolute<\/a>, the famous Belfast yard is a \u2018a UK strategic defence asset, as one of only three UK naval shipbuilders suitable for major MoD contract work and boasting two of the largest dry docks in Europe\u2019. When the new warships are built, they\u2019ll probably sail south to protect the South China Sea from the Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not far from the docks, out towards the George Best Airport, Spirit AeroSystems<\/a> have been working on killer drones for the Royal Air Force. In Bangor by the sea, Denroy<\/a> is busy making the trigger mechanisms for mortar bombs. In banquet halls and debating chambers they\u2019re quoting Hume and Luther King. They\u2019re reading from S\u00e9amus Heaney\u2019s Cure at Troy<\/em><\/a>, summoning the longed-for tidal wave of justice, demanding that hope and history rhyme on their wine-wet eloquent lips. We do love to wax lyrical on the subject of ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, in a Paris courthouse, a file on European profit and foreign loss lies heavy on a judge\u2019s desk. In Yemen, they\u2019re teaching their kids in backrooms, hoping that since the schools have been flattened the bombers won\u2019t come back. In Belfast labs, that are hermetically sealed against the lies told to children, technicians are perfecting the firing mechanisms for an imminent run on the production line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s at least be honest with ourselves this Good Friday, our statesmen are hucksters willing to bargain our souls against the profit margins on missiles. Our poets\u2019 words have been recommissioned as toxic lightning rods for cheap sentiment. Peace is neither here nor there, Northern Ireland is a node in the murder machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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