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Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

While there is the issue of family closure and all that....two years....this Cold Case unit and its cases sound like an awful waste of time, money and manpower that could be concentrated on present day crimes.

It's a joke, for the simple fact that the RUC were up to their necks in illegal killings as well as colluding with Loyalist paramilitaries to murder the people they were allegedly supposed to be protecting. And now we're supposed to believe that they are some morally superior force in a moral position to decide who is guilty and who isn't? It's a pile of b*llocks.

The South African Truth commission proposals bandied about many years ago seem an altogether better idea.

It'll never happen because it's in nobody's interest for it to happen. Do you think Gerry Adams is going to admit being in the IRA at such a commission? Admit he was a liar for years when he's building a party in the south? Do you think the British government is going to admit facilitating death squads that murdered their own citizens? Not a hope. Sadly we'll never know half of what went on in Ireland.

Will this rule apply to any possible Bloody Sunday prosecutions? Or sectarian offences committed by non sworn civilians (for example, people involved in the beating of the two soldiers at the Belfast funeral who were not sworn IRA members)

Considering only one British soldier has been convicted of murder since World War 2 I wouldn't hold my breath. The Brits had pretty much carte blanche in this country and they won't be held to account for much of what they did.