Brother of IRA victim on McGuinness death

(22 Mar 2017) The brother of a man killed over 40 years ago during "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland said on Wednesday that Martin McGuinness had "blood on hands".
Colin Worton, whose brother Kenneth was shot and killed alongside 9 other protestants at the Kingsmill Massacre in County Armagh in 1976, spoke out over the former politician and IRA commander's failure to apologise for acts of violence.
McGuinness, who died on Tuesday at 66, was an Irish Republican Army commander who led the paramilitary movement toward reconciliation with Britain and went on to serve as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister for a decade in a Catholic-Protestant power-sharing unity government.
A militant who long sought to unify Ireland through violence, he became a peacemaking politician who earned the respect, and even the friendship, of his former enemies.
However, Worton said he couldn't understand the messages from world leaders on Tuesday, hailing McGuinness as a peacemaker.
"When people say that McGuinness was a peacemaker. It really insults me," he said.
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