Truth and Reconciliation

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Cheif Constable Hugh Orde tells the BBC’s Barney Rowan that in light of the 1800 or so murders that will go unsolved from the troubles, he personally favours some form of Truth and Reconcliation tribunral.

However Dennis Bradley, Vice Chairmain of the NI Policing Board thinks it is completely impractical:

You cannot have justice and truth for everyone. There are parts of government intelligence that no government in the world will let you close to. They may let you skirt around it, but they won’t let you into it. And there are parts of terrorist organisations or freedom fighters, whatever they call themselves, that they won’t let you into either.

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