The human rights group, Families Against Intimidation and Terror, yesterday accused the IRA of responsibility for an attack on a woman in South Armagh who had a death threat carved on her arms and legs.
The woman was attacked by an armed gang of up to eight men who forced their way into her home in Bessbrook early on Tuesday morning. They asked for a man by a nickname and when he was not there they held the woman down and scraped death threats to the man on her arms and legs. Four children were asleep in the house at the time.
FAIT's spokesman, Mr Vincent McKenna, questioned Sinn Fein's right to take seats in the Assembly and said the government should stop "pandering to the terrorist mutilators and murderers".