Victims welcome Irish Commissioner
Eilish McCabe, a spokesperson for the Relatives for Justice - the
human rights group campaigning for the victims of state violence
in the Six Counties - has welcomed the appointment of John Wilson
as a victims commissioner by the Dublin government.
Ms McCabe confirmed that the group would be making
representations to Wilson and hoped he would not ``make the same
mistakes'' as the chairperson of the British victims commission,
Kenneth Bloomfield, who ``ignored our specific needs.'' She added
that the group were ``not surprised'' by Bloomfield's attitude
given that he was ``a former head of the civil service in the
North at the time most of the state atrocities were committed
against us.'' Ms McCabe condemned ``the appointment of Adam Ingram
as a `victims commissioner', who is also minister of those armed
forces who violated our human rights and killed our loved ones,
added insult to injury.''
Ms McCabe concluded by urging Wilson and the Dublin government to
``take on fully the concerns and feelings of those groups and
individuals who have been forgotten.''
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