Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
NI Troubles: Widow calls for legacy bill to be scrapped
The widow of a UDR soldier killed in 1983 calls on the UK government to abandon controversial bill.
www.bbc.co.uk
The widow of a man killed by the IRA has urged the UK government to scrap its controversial legacy bill.
Ronnie Finlay, who was a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), was shot dead in County Tyrone in August 1983.
The 32-year-old was leaving his civilian job at the former Adria factory in Strabane when he was killed.
The govt are pushing a bill through parliament which will end any prosecutions and investgations into over a 1000 unsolved murders in Belfast.
It has succeeded in uniting both sides of the divided community against it. The Irish govt is also disapproving.In fact the whole island of Ireland wants nothing to do with it.
So why is the conservative govt so determined to push it through ? Why is it so keen to let killers off the hook ?
The answer is as you would suspect.
Many of the killers are british soldiers or agents of the british state. Britain fought a dirty war in Northern Ireland and used killers as agents. The RUC was also complicit in many killings and would tip off unionist thugs about targets. ( google Brian Nelson)
On top of that there were many dubious killings by british forces (google Ballymurphy massacre)
My suspicion is that much of this goes all the way up to thatcher and the tories cant have that.
If only the bonehead unionists hadnt collapsed the Northern Ireland Assembly the ptovince would have a strong voice in opposing this colonial measure.
Another brexit benefit.
