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Paterson: stop alle inchieste eccessive come quella sul Bloody Sunday

‘No more Saville-style inquiries’ – Paterson

The Northern Ireland Secretary of State has told Parliament there should be no more open-ended Saville-style investigations into the past.

Owen PatersonOwen Paterson was speaking during a debate on the controversial Bloody Sunday Inquiry, which was the longest of its kind in legal history and cost nearly £200m.

Lord Saville’s report into the deaths of 13 people, who were shot at a civil rights march in the Bogside area of Londonderry in January 1972, was delivered in June – 12 years after the inquiry was set up in 1998.

According to Mr Paterson, such excess should never be allowed again.

“As my Right Honourable Friend the Prime Minister has said, there should be no more open-ended and costly inquiries,” he said.

But the comments angered Labour’s former Northern Ireland Secretary, Shaun Woodward – who said inquiries were vital in building peace.

“So let us imagine that the Secretary of State has taken this decision regardless of the circumstances that there should be no more public inquiries, and let us give him the benefit of the doubt as to why he has not been able to convey that information to the family of Pat Finucane, or to the people of Ballymurphy,or Omagh or Claudy,” he said.

“To those of us in authority, let us never confuse the price of truth with the value of truth.”

Another former Northern Ireland Secretary said the peace process may not have happened without Saville’s investigation.

Paul Murphy said: “I haven’t the slight doubt that, had we not tackled the issue of Bloody Sunday in the way that we did, there wouldn’t have been a successful peace process.”


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Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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