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Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement: 25 years on, justice and peace remain elusive.

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Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement: 25 years on, justice and peace remain elusive.
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Northern Ireland marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to the region after a 30-year period of sectarian conflict known as the Troubles. The conflict escalated in the late 1960s, amid swelling anger at discrimination towards the province’s Irish Catholics. More than 3,500 people were killed during the Troubles, while 50,000 were injured. Sporadic incidents of violence continue, leading the UK government to last week raise the terrorism threat level in the region to severe once again.

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  1. 'The hatred festered in our family': Northern Ireland marks 25 years since the Good Friday peace accord  CNN
  2. How justice still eludes Northern Ireland victims' families  Reuters
  3. Good Friday Agreement: Peace deal still example to the world - Tony Blair  BBC
  4. Good Friday Agreement: how the US came to be a key broker in Northern Ireland's peace deal  The Conversation
  5. Grondahl: In Albany, worries peace could end in Northern Ireland  Times Union

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