Analysis: Northern Ireland's violent past looms over last-ditch Brexit talks.
The Troubles were a communal trauma. My generation lived through it. Like most people, I knew many victims.
I heard shootings and bombings every week at my school in Central Belfast, close to an area known as “murder mile.” So it’s personal, as it is for everyone in Northern Ireland watching the Brexit chaos and fearing the divorce may tear to shreds an imperfect but effective peace. Some may call it an exaggerated fear, but if you’ve lived through a war, you don’t forget the horrors easily.Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images fileThey reassure voters that the issue of the Irish border may be a thorny problem, but is not the trigger for renewed violence.
Astonishingly, there are more crossings in Ireland than along the entire border between the U.S. and Canada, and between the European Union and the countries to the east, where there are 137 crossings. During the Troubles, most of the Irish border roads were blown up or blocked with spikes. Take the prime minister who once compared the Irish border to the boundaries between two London boroughs, Camden and Westminster. He insisted that the border was not a complicated issue.
“I don’t think my visiting the border is really going to give me a fundamental insight into the border beyond what one can get by studying it,” Rees-Mogg said.David Turnley / Corbis/VCG via Getty Images file
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