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That this House is deeply concerned that since the re-routing of the Drumcree Orange Order parade in July 1998, the residents of the Garvaghy Road area of Portadown have seen their solicitor, Rosemary Nelson murdered and been subjected to a virtually continuous series of legal and illegal pro-Orange Order protests in which one police officer has been murdered by Loyalists, local residents have been injured or forced to leave their homes and Catholic businesses have been destroyed by arsonists...

That this House extends its deepest condolences to the family of human rights solicitor Rosemary Nelson and expresses its utter abhorrence at her barbaric murder on 15th March; notes that Rosemary Nelson had complained that RUC officers had made death threats against her, stating to the International Operations and Human Rights Sub-committee of the United States House International Relations Committee hearing on Human Rights in Northern Ireland on 29th September 1998 that 'my clients have rep...