Ministers insulted families
British `Victims' minister Adam Ingram told relatives of the eight
IRA Volunteers assassinated by the British Army at Loughgall that he
accepted the need for the men to be killed.
Ingram made his crude remarks during the meeting he held with
representatives of the families, including the wife and sister of
civilian Anthony Hughes, on Monday.
The following day, the mother of Belfast teenager Peter McBride, shot
in the back and killed by two Scots Guards, walked out of a meeting
with British armed forces minister Doug Henderson after Henderson
informed her that the killers would stay in the British army.
enraged Jean McBride, Peter's mother, said after she stormed out
of Castle Buildings that Henderson tried to justify her son's
killing: ``he said they were loyal to the army''.
In the week when nationalists will be commemorating the dead of
Bloody Sunday these two meetings and the insults meted out to the
relatives of dead nationalists are a reminder of the value put on the
lives of the 400 or so people killed by the British state.
Ingram and Henderson's arrogance have taken Britain's insensitivity
to nationalists to a new depth and demonstrate that British ministers
are incapable of dealing with the issue of nationalist victims with
any humanity.
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