
Northern Ireland's Adams in UK court for civil trial over IRA bombings
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Northern Ireland's Adams in UK court for civil trial over IRA bombings
Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams appeared at London's High Court Monday for a civil lawsuit which aims to hold him liable for Irish Republican Army bombings in Britain, a case which could affect the prominent republican leader's legacy. Adams became Sinn Fein leader in 1983 when it was the IRA's political wing, establishing himself as the best-known face of the movement seeking to end British rule in Northern Ireland. He later reinvented himself as a peacemaker after helping secure the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which largely ended three decades of sectarian conflict, known as the Troubles, in which some 3,600 people were killed.
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