McCord addresses US Congressional hearing

The following is the prepared oral testimony of Raymond McCord Sr. to the US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, today [Thursday].

Mr McCord has led a campaign to expose British collusion in the death of his son, Raymond Mc Cord Jr. The 22-year-old Protestant man was murdered in 1997 near Belfast to protect a Crown force agent within the unionist paramilitary UVF.

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