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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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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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