The British government is to begin a new consultation with victims’ groups and other organisations in the first step of a ‘truth and reconciliation’ process.
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Talks planned on ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ process
Published May 12, 2004
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
www.dannymorrison.com
The ‘Daily Telegraph’ wrote: “The Royal Military Police are already investigating allegations of mistreatment of Iraqis by British soldiers in southern Iraq after the Mirror’s publication of photographs said to show a member of The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment urinating on an Iraqi lying in a military truck with a hood over his head.”
Published May 10, 2004
More than 2,000 republicans gathered in Belfast city centre at
the weekend for the 23rd annual commemoration of the 1981 hunger
strikes.
Published May 10, 2004
DUP vows end to Good Friday Agreement
Ian Paisley’s DUP vowed at the weekend to put the Good Friday
Agreement “out of its misery”.
Published May 10, 2004
The following is an edited version of the party leader’s address
by Ian Paisley to the annual conference of the Democratic
Unionist Party (DUP).
Published May 10, 2004
CASTLEREA 4 RELEASE COULD FOLLOW DEAL - AHERN
The release of Provisional IRA prisoners still held at Castlerea
jail are a bargaining chip for the Dublin government in its
continuing negotiations with Sinn Féin, the Irish Prime Minister
Bertie Ahern has confirmed.
Published May 10, 2004
Call for inquiry over Garda May Day violence
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has called for an inquiry
into the level of force used to police a protest in Dublin on
May Day.
Published May 10, 2004
South Armagh anger at police board exercise
Policing representatives called off a meeting in south Armagh
today following fierce resistance from residents.
Published May 10, 2004
A group calling itself the Protestant Action Force has claimed
responsibility for a number of pipe bombs planted in Randalstown
outside Belfast overnight.
Published May 10, 2004
Sisters of Mercy make apology to abuse victims
A religious order has issued an unconditional apology to all the
children who suffered abuse in its orphanages and industrial
schools throughout Ireland.
Published May 7, 2004
Treaties don’t stir good memories
By Ray O’Hanlon (for the Irish News)
An American anniversary passed quietly last week. On April 29 1868, representatives of the United States government and of the Sioux and Arapaho Indian nations signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in Wyoming. Signatories for the United States included General William ecumseh Sherman, a few years on from his civil war triumphs.
Published May 7, 2004
Bank caught overcharging customers
Allied Irish Banks, Ireland’s largest bank, has been exposed for
overcharging foreign exchange customers over an eight-year
period.
Published May 7, 2004
Cory tells US Congress of collusion findings
Retired Canadian Supreme Court Judge Peter Cory testified before
the U.S. Congress in Washington on Wednesday giving detailed
evidence of collusion of British Crown forces in four murders in
the North of Ireland.
Published May 7, 2004
Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills
where St Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to the heartland
of Mesopotamia, and Baghdad, and the Shia south. I have seldom
felt as safe in any country.
Published May 7, 2004
STORM OVER PRISONERS THREATENS TALKS
The case of four Republican prisoners who were denied release
under the Good Friday Agreement was in the spotlight tonight
amid allegations that their release was a secret part of a deal
that collapsed dramatically in October last year.
Published May 7, 2004
British move to block SF fundraising
The British government has been accused of damaging the
democratic process by restricting the fund-raising of political
parties.
Published May 7, 2004
Primate’s speech provokes mixed reaction
The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Sean
Brady, was branded as a republican sympathiser by the DUP’s Ian
Paisley jnr after he made a wide ranging speech on the peace
process in the North of Ireland.
Published May 7, 2004
Within just a week of publishing its findings the fallibility of
the Independent Monitoring Commission became easily demonstrated
if one considers how it would have reported had it been
established in 2001, with the same punitive powers and using the
same jaundiced criteria it was to use in the Tohill affair.
Published May 4, 2004
Seven to stand for EU elections in North
The former leader of the Ulster Farmers’ Union John Gilliland
has announced that he is standing as an independent in the
forthcoming European elections in the Six Counties.
Published May 4, 2004
Bring Them Home campaign continues
An international campaign to allow the three Irishmen known as
the ‘Colombia 3’ to be released into freedom is underway
following their acquittal in Bogota on charges of training
rebels last week.
Published May 4, 2004
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