East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell spoke during Northern Ireland Questions in the House of Commons. He challenged efforts to present paramilitary ceasefires as achievements.

Campbell noted that the IRA announced a ceasefire in 1994 due to limited options and informant presence. Loyalist paramilitaries followed with their own ceasefire.

He stated that civilised society should not applaud groups for halting violence they should never have begun. Campbell argued against logic that portrays decades of terror as inevitable or justified simply because it ended.

The MP said claims of no alternative to murder fail scrutiny. He added that such arguments fail under the weight of lives lost.

Campbell stressed that violence was never justified. He opposed glorification of terrorism.