John Hume has been described as “an apostle of nonviolence”, a “committed European” and a “giant of peace” in international media.
Mr Hume, who was 83, died on Monday morning in a Derry nursing home following a long period of illness.“an apostle of nonviolence who led Northern Ireland’s largest Catholic political party and helped quell three decades of bloodshed in the British province”.Mr Hume “rose from hardscrabble beginnings to become the longtime leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and a towering figure in the grinding and oft-thwarted drive to end 25 years of The Troubles”.
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