Sir, - The murders of Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson attract column after column of condemnation and rhetoric. We are told by Sinn Fein and the media that the murders are further examples of the oppression of "nationalists" in the North.
Charles Bennett is murdered and we are told to forget about it, to let sleeping dogs lie. There is no pressure for judicial inquiries into his death.
The general public is expected to tolerate intimidation and murder by republicans, but have all the sympathy in the world when their defenders fall prey to what they espouse.
Imagine if we didn't live in a democracy. - Yours, etc.,
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Alvaro Reynolds, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4.