DAFYDD IWAN AND 'EDWARDS PROJECT' - WYILT WYLIT LLYWELYN! please republish and pass on.
Sir,
Wylit, Wylit Llywelyn.
As a long term committed Cymric patriot, activist and
nationalist, it was most encouraging to see such a large crowd marching for
Cymric Independence in Caernarfon last Saturday and the organizers of the march
are to be commended for organizing and stewarding such a large event so
successfully so, well done AUOB/YES CYMRU.
However, what was very sad and disturbing as far as I'm
concerned was to see one of the speakers, Dafydd Iwan, stating his love for
Caernarfon castle - our Welsh Bastille. His reasoning was that he loved the
castle because it symbolized that "Edward 1's project" had failed!
Really? As far as I'm aware, we, as a nation have been under occupation for
over 700yrs! Edward 1 and his forces destroyed the Royal dynasty of Gwynedd,
murdered both Princes Llywelyn and Dafydd AP Gruffydd, imprisoned their wives
and children and left them to rot in English dungeons or nunneries, and stole
the Cymric royal treasures including the sacred Croes Naid.
He then used the
sweat and blood of Cymric prisoners of war and serfs as slaves to build
Caernarfon castle as a symbol of conquest along with a walled town which he
swiftly filled with English settlers.
Since then and over the centuries, other brave patriot
princes such as Madog ap Llywelyn and Owain Glyndŵr have risen in challenge to
that castle and English rule in Cymru and many brave patriots have perished for
their efforts, If it were not for the sacrifices of brave warrior patriots of
the past, Cymru and Cymric speakers
would not have survived to this day.
That castle is
dripping in Cymric blood and Mr Iwan knows this as well as I do but now has the
audacity to openly declare that he loves it!
Yes, Mr Iwan
"we are still here" but as a
colony of England
Maybe Mr Iwan can tell us why the 1969 Investiture throne
is kept in the castle along with the Investiture slate dais which has pride of
place on the castle green? Would it have anything to do with an imminent 3rd
Investiture in the castle I wonder? and when the proposed Investiture is
announced, will Mr Iwan then be delivering speeches stating that we must not
protest.
I ask the above question as It had come as a shock to
myself and many others when Mr Iwan, a patriot I had always had great respect
for, accepted an invitation to visit
Charles Windsor at his holiday home in Sir Caerfyrddin, and I, amongst others pondered over why the
invitation was extended. Mr Iwan may be well known in Cymru but, is he that
important that he gets an invitation to visit the Heir to the English throne
for a pow wow - and why now? The English
State
Siân Ifan
posted by WELSH REMEMBRANCERS @ 11:41
