Families campaigning for the: 1 Implementation of the Stormont House Agreement; 2 Proper funding of inquests; 3 Proper funding of the Office of Police Ombudsman
Fantastic work again by @papertrailpro@ciaranmacairt@tftcampaign helping families to receive the #papertrail findings of what happened to their loved ones
#NeverGiveUp papertrailpro will find those archives for ⚖️
Why lock them down in Kew-Gardens in London Enough said ⚖️
Despite Des McAlea and I being eyewitnesses to the murder of our band-mates, we have never been interviewed by the Irish authorities. And although British soldiers were involved, the Irish government eagerly awaits Britain’s Operation Denton’s gaslighting report into the murders.
Mark Thompson, CEO of Relatives For Justice (RFJ), said that over the same period from the formation of the ICRIR, and with a fraction of the staff and resources, RFJ had published nine full family reports “with another four imminent”.
“It is beyond comprehension that an organisation with nearly 300 staff and £250million at its disposal has not completed one report yet, and issued one call for eyewitnesses,” he said.
“The track record of disfunction and lack of delivery vindicates families’ instincts and experience that this institution was never designed to deliver to families. It is a carefully constructed white elephant of British state impunity which deliberately cannot deliver to families’ rights or needs.”
A research charity has launched a tracker tool for British army deployment records during the Troubles.
British Army Tracker Tool Northern Ireland (BATT NI) has been launched by Paper Trail and will allow researchers and others to find out where military units were based during the years of conflict.
Read more: https://t.co/uhlxLaxPSF
🚀 Launch of BATT NI, Paper Trail's British Army Tracker Tool Northern Ireland. You can now search the Northern Ireland deployment records of regular British Army units during the conflict and Operation Banner #BATTNI#FollowThePaperTrail#FREE https://t.co/9PRi7LdyBL
Thoughts with the family of Martha Campbell whose anniversary occurs today. Martha was murdered 54 years ago close to her home. Martha is the girl holding a dolly, sitting in front of her big brother, Tony. Read Tony's commemoration for his precious sister https://t.co/TlGIvAXsgf
ICRIR: "Structural weakness", "cultural challenges", "unacceptable behaviour", "conflict among senior leaders", "governance and finance weaknesses". If ICRIR's own staff don't have confidence in it, why would any bereaved family?
I've been open on here and in a lengthy meeting with the ICRIR that I'm engaging with them in the full confidence that they are a sham. I had no idea that I would be proved right so rapidly. The first communication I've had since our meeting in February is to... confirm the sham.
Yet again the families have been proved correct - how could we ever trust the ICRIR to do its work fairly when this is the shambles it thinks of itself. A disgraceful but unsurprising mess RT "NI secretary deeply concerned by review into legacy body"
https://t.co/fvujSPwqqP
A mass murder perpetrated by the Killer Kings Regiment: The Springhill-Westrock Massacre. The victims included a schoolgirl, two teenage boys, a family man, and the local priest.
🎥 Watch: The Killer Kings and its Bloody Tour of West Belfast in 1972 - https://t.co/WUfmPrSLCm
Springhill Inquest: The Coroner indicated that he will consider preparing a file for the DPP/PPS, in light of findings pointing to potential criminality.
From 1pm Mark Thompson spoke on .@bbcradioulster TalkBack programme on the Springhill Inquest and dealing with the past. You can listen back here
https://t.co/59rciZUBWI
The Springhill-Westrock Massacre was not an isolated killing spree by the British Army in the summer of '72. Its Killer Kings Regiment left a trail of human devastation in its wake. It remains a great honour for Paper Trail to work with these hero families https://t.co/bMpGEkMv3A
Springhill inquest: Soldiers did not use ‘reasonable force’ in shooting dead of three teenagers, a father-of-six and a Catholic priest, coroner rules https://t.co/eVo94gnB93