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Setting the Truth Free
A message from the Bloody Sunday Families and wounded:
To our supporters everywhere
On 30th January 1972, a dark cloud descended upon this beautiful city. It stayed until last Tuesday, 15th June 2010 – over 38 years of a journey. It has now been lifted.
It has been a long journey from the beginning of the Bloody Sunday [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2010 under Bloody Sunday, British army, British government, Consultative Group on the Past, Derry, Irish peace process, accountability, awesome, ballymurphy massacre, culture of impunity, human rights, impunity, ireland, justice, relatives for justice, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth commission, truth recovery process.
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“How you will hope for sun and a still day!”
I came across a reference to the following prose poem in a book I read about lessons from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It is called “Unchopping a Tree” and was written by M.S. Merwin; the book described it as a metaphor for the healing of a nation. I like to think [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2010 under belfast, human rights, ireland, relatives for justice, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth commission, truth recovery process.
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Belfast Telegraph article about David McIlwaine’s uncle being forced to identify him
This is heartbreaking:
Police ‘forced’ man to identify mutilated body of murdered nephew, court told
Police effectively forced the uncle of a teenage murder victim to identify the badly mutilated body against his will, the High Court has heard.
Alan Steele also claimed officers did not care because they wrongly believed his dead nephew, David McIlwaine, was a [...]
Posted: February 4th, 2010 under British government, David McIlwaine, Irish peace process, Police Service of Northern Ireland, UVF, accountability, belfast, collusion, culture of impunity, impunity, ireland, justice, loyalist paramilitaries, policing, torture, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth recovery process.
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UN report highlights British collusion in secret detention and torture
The (fantastic) organization Reprieve today announced the release of a UN report (click that link to download the full report) into secret detention that exposes UK collusion in secret detention and torture. The investigation found, among other things, that the UK knew of the US’ rendition practices in 2002 but continued to hand them [...]
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under American politics, British government, Derry, Irish peace process, MI5, RUC, Reprieve, Special Branch, Uncategorized, United Nations, accountability, belfast, collusion, culture of impunity, human rights, impunity, ireland, justice, loyalist paramilitaries, margaret thatcher, middle east, sectarianism, shoot to kill policy, torture, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth commission, truth recovery process, war.
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Footnotes in Gaza: “events are continuous”
I had the pleasure of attending a discussion with graphic journalist Joe Sacco last night at the Brooklyn Public Library. It was both my first visit to the library and the first time I’ve heard Sacco talk about his work.
Footnotes in Gaza chronicles Sacco’s quest to uncover the truth about what happened [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 under Brooklyn, Israel, Joe Sacco, Uncategorized, anti-zionism, awesome, human rights, justice, palestine, relatives for justice, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth recovery process.
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at the edge of my seat
January 28th is the date set for the Eames/Bradley Consultative Group on the Past to release their highly anticipated recommendations on how best the north of Ireland might deal with the legacy of the conflict. In today’s Belfast Telegraph, Brian Rowan shares the news that the CGP will be announcing a “Legacy Commission”–titled as such [...]
Posted: January 14th, 2009 under British government, Consultative Group on the Past, Danny Morrison, Irish peace process, Legacy Commission, MI5, RUC, Special Branch, belfast, collusion, human rights, ireland, justice, loyalist paramilitaries, pat finucane, relatives for justice, shoot to kill policy, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth commission, truth recovery process, war, wrongful convictions.
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