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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- They are perhaps the most famous sisters in the world right now -- Catherine, Gemma, Claire, Paula and Donna McCartney.
Their fight to bring their brother Robert's murderers to justice has made them instant celebrities, because they are pursuing some of the most dangerous people in the world: Members of the Irish Republican Army.
In an interview with CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour, the sisters tell their harrowing story.
They give a graphic and emotional account of how their brother and a friend were drinking in a Belfast pub when they were brutally attacked, and left for dead.
After Robert's death, the five sisters began their mission to seek answers, and find those responsible. They say the IRA Council even offered to execute those responsible on their behalf.
"We decided that justice was better for Robert in the conventional method, which is bringing them through the courts," sister Gemma says.
They speak of their feelings at knowing those responsible for the killing are still at large.
"They're in the street. I passed one the other day ... He was coming back from the local shop. Standing brazenly in the street, talking to someone."
According to the sisters, the murderer destroyed the weapon, seized and burned CCTV footage ... and then told everyone in the bar it was IRA business and nobody was to say anything.
The sisters hope the overwhelming public support they have generated will encourage witnesses to come forward.
"It just takes some people to stand up and say 'no, we are not having any more.' And that is what we are doing.
"We didn't think for one minute that we'd have to go through this. But if it comes to it, we'll have to do what other families in the country have had to do and battle for 30 years. We'll do it. The truth will come out."
