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DUP vuole cambiare la definizione di “vittima”

DUP seek victim definition change

The DUP has announced plans for an assembly bill which would change the definition of a victim.

Jeffrey DonaldsonThe party said the bill is intended to ensure that the perpetrators of violence during the Troubles are not defined as victims.

Currently the legal definition makes no distinction between paramilitaries, who were killed or injured, and other victims.

Sinn Fein said there should be “no hierarchy of victims.”

Launching a public consultation on the proposed bill DUP assembly member Jeffrey Donaldson said the party was seeking to narrow the scope of the definition of a victim.

“It is about how we deal with the past, and what we are not prepared to countenance is a rewriting of the Troubles where the perpetrators, whoever they are, who carried out acts of terrorism are placed on a par with the thousands of people they killed and maimed.

“I want to see the process moving on and a Northern Ireland that puts the past behind it but in seeking to deal with the past, it is important we clearly understand that there was wrongdoing and that wrongdoing is recognised.”

Victims are defined under the Victims and Survivors (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 as:

  • Someone who has been physically or psychologically injured as a result of a conflict-related incident
  • Someone who provides a substantial amount of care on a regular basis for a person who has been physically or psychologically injured as a result of a conflict-related incident
  • Someone who has been bereaved as a result of a conflict-related incident

The new victims forum is also intending to examine the definition of a victim.

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René Querin

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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