Gordon Wilson (peace campaigner)
|
|
Gordon Wilson (1927-1995) was the father of Marie Wilson, a victim of Enniskillen Commemoration Parade bombing by the Provisional IRA. He came to notice with an emotional television interview he gave to the BBC the same evening in which he described his last conversation with his daughter as they both lay buried in rubble and pleaded with loyalists not to take revenge for her killing. He became a member of the Irish senate in 1993 on the nomination of the then Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds. On many occasions he met with members of Sinn Fein and representatives of both the Provisional IRA and loyalist paramilitaries in an attempt to persuade these groups to abandon violence.
no:Gordon Wilson (fredsaktivist)