The Minister for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain was born to South African parents who were anti-apartheid activists in the South African Liberal Party, for which they were made "banned persons", briefly jailed, and prevented from working. Friends of the Hain family formed a small resistance group, the Armed Resistance Movement.

The Armed Resistance Movement (ARM) was an terrorist group whose members were mainly white, and friends of Peter Hain's family were involved.

ARM came into being at the time of the arrest of the major ANC leadership. It succeeded in several bombing operations. However, a bombing in Johannesburg station in July 1964 led to the death of an elderly woman.

One of the ARM's operatives (John Harris, a school teacher) was subsequently arrested, convicted, sentenced to death, and executed.

Harris was a friend of Peter Hain's family, and Harris' wife, Ann, and their young son, David, went to live with the Hains in the run-up to the trial. The 15-year-old Peter Hain delivered the eulogy at the service for Harris after his execution by the South African government for planting the bombs that killed and wounded people in the blast.

Conviction for Hain

In 1966 the Hain family fled South Africa and settled in London. Peter became chairman of the Stop the Seventy Tour Campaign which disrupted tours by the South African rugby union teams in 1969 and 1970. A 1972 private prosecution brought by Francis Bennion in regard to his leadership of the illegal direct-action interference with the tours resulted in a ten-day Old Bailey Trial with the jury failing to agree on three charges and hence he was acquitted on those charges, but Peter Hain was found guilty of criminal conspiracy and fined £200. He appealed against the conviction in 1973. The Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal with costs.

As reported in the Daily Telegraph of 23 October 1973, the court said his conviction was "fully justified". Lord Justice Roskill said Hain had not elected to give evidence, adding that "He gave no explanation of his part over the incidents with which he was charged." In 1976 Hain was tried for, and acquitted of, a 1974 bank robbery, after allegedly having been framed by South African intelligence agents.

Deaths of thousands

Under Tony Blair the Labour Party themselves are also involved in the deaths of tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Serbia. The Conservatives also lobbied for the illegal war in Iraq and voted for it in Parliament making them complicit in the crimes of the Labour government.

The Labour Party are also involved in rewarding former terrorists in the IRA like Martin McGuiness and Gerry Adams with Cabinet Minster posts in the Northern Ireland Assembly and also freeing the terrorists responsible for the worst atrocities in the conflict and rewarding them with jobs on the Policing Boards.

House of murder

As for the media, should they choose to cover this story in the usual simplistic and emotive manner, perhaps they should bear in mind the case of 44-year-old James Raven. In August 2004 at Chester Crown court Raven was sentenced to life imprisonment for torturing and murdering Brian Waters. In his summing up Justice Poole told Raven: "These crimes were exceptionally sadistic. The violence used was both gratuitous and extreme and was characterised by the humiliation and degradation of Brian Waters before he died. This was a very serious case."

James Raven worked as a journalist for the BBC and Channel Four.