Independent inquiry call must be heeded
Over 1000 lawyers, human rights activists and politicians from across
the world have supported the demand for an independent inquiry into
the murder of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane over ten years ago.
Allegations of Crown force collusion have been strengthened following
the submission last week of a confidential report to the British and
Dublin governments and the UN prepared by British Irish Rights Watch.
The centrality of State collusion in arming Loyalist death squads and
collusion in the targeting of nationalists was further underlined by
Martin McGuinness in the Assembly on Monday. He held aloft a pin from
a South African-made grenade that was part of a consignment that
British Agents delivered to various Loyalist groups in the 1980s and
was subsequently used in a recent attack on the home of a
Nationalist.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Lawyers Committee for
Human Rights, Sir Nigel Rodley, UN Special Rapportuer on Torture, UN
Special Rapportuer Dr Data Chumaraswamy, Sir Louis Blom-Cooper,
Independent Commissioner for Holding Centres in Northern Ireland, the
Irish Council for Civil Liberties along with a host of international
lawyers and politicians have also backed the call for an idependent
inquiry into the Finucane murder.
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