LONDON: John Hume, the Northern Irish politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his pivotal role in ending decades of violence in the Briti...
In this file photo taken on Nov 27, 2013 former Northern Ireland politician and Joint 1998 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, John Hume, attends the funeral service for Irish priest Father Alec Reid at Clonard Monastery in Belfast, Northern Ireland. — AFPJohn Hume, the Northern Irish politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his pivotal role in ending decades of violence in the British province, has died aged 83, his family announced Monday.
“We are deeply saddened to announce that John passed away peacefully in the early hours of the morning after a short illness,“ Hume’s family said in a statement. A consistently moderate voice during a conflict that killed almost 3,600 people, he helped lead the cross-community peace process that culminated in the landmark 1998 deal reached by Belfast, Dublin and London.“John Hume was a political titan; a visionary who refused to believe the future had to be the same as the past,“ said former British prime minister Tony Blair, who helped craft the Good Friday Agreement.
“In our darkest days he recognised that violence was the wrong path worked steadfastly to promote democratic politics,“ she added. As the province’s peace process began to progress in the 1990s with several ceasefires by the Irish Republic Army paramilitary group, Hume worked to engage US politicians, notably Bill Clinton.
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