All victims deserve truth and deserve respect - Brady
Published: 26 August, 2009
Commenting after Jeffery Donaldson announced that he intends on travelling to Libya in order to lobby on behalf of certain victims groups, Sinn Féin MLA Mickey Brady has said that Mr Donaldson's claims would have more credibility if he looked closer to home and demanded that the British government and the state sponsored unionist militia, which he was a member of, came clean on collusion and state sponsored murder in Ireland.
Mr Brady said
"Jeffrey Donaldson is going to Libya with several victims organisations seeking compensation for victims of the conflict in Ireland. As an elected representative that is his right. It is worth noting however that Mr Donaldson was a leading member of the UDR, a state sponsored unionist militia, whose members were involved in collusion and murder. Maybe Mr Donaldson would afford the victims of the UDR and those killed by collusion between it and loyalist gangs the same courtesy and demand that former colleagues come clean.
"Neither the British Government nor its armed forces have apologised or recognised the huge amount of hurt that they have caused to hundreds of victims here in the north and beyond. The process of truth recovery is a difficult one and I believe that the British Government must acknowledge and accept its role in the conflict and help the process of truth recovery and justice in any way it can. We all have a role to play in ensuring that justice - political unionism seems to believe itself exempt from this process."
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