Meeting John De Chastelain May 1999
Briefing for those MP’s asking questions on the numbers of missing security files and on issues relating to legally held weapons by members of the security forces and those registered to keep weapons.
Relatives for Justice is victim/survivor support group working on behalf of those killed during the conflict in the north of Ireland. The group mainly works with those families...read more
Opinion article for Irish News October 2004 Yesterday’s expected announcement by Paul Murphy to allocate £9 m in additional revenue to the RUC/PSNI’s Serious Crime Review Team follows calls last week from Irwin Montgomery, chairman of the Police Federation. Mr. Montgomery unveiled proposals to Minster Ian Pearson, that £9million in extra cash would provide enough funding to investigate 1,800 cases of “innocent victims” in two and half years....read more
Disparity, deserving & undeserving For in excess of 25 years those involved in Relatives for Justice (RFJ) have been providing support for families and individuals who have suffered as a result of our conflict. RFJ works primarily with, and on behalf of, families who have been affected by state and state sponsored violence. RFJ is itself formed by relatives who themselves have experienced violence from the state. We provide...read more
Forgotten Victims Conference; August 1998 Forgotten Victims Conference St Mary’s College Falls Road Belfast August 1998 Relatives for Justice & Feile An Phobail.
The conference provided a space for families affected by British State violence to tell their stories and articulate their views as the ‘official’ processes regarding victims and survivors emerging from the Good Friday Agreement – the Bloomfield Report -effectively excluded...read more
Guardian Article by RFJ Investigations - What investigations
With today's revelations in the Guardian on the content of the Stevens report, soon to be published, Relatives for Justice, a support group for those bereaved and injured by State and State sponsored violence, examines the role of Special Branch and the intelligence services during the course of the conflict in the North of Ireland.
The R.U.C’s, now...read more
Irish News - What is Truth? The issue of collusion is again centre stage. The ‘Independent’s’ frontpage story on Pat Finucane, the libel trial between Sean McPhilemey and the ‘Sunday Times’, and the issues surrounding and involving the assassination of Rosemary Nelson.
What is the truth? And what do we already know?
In 1995 RFJ published a report entitled Collusion. This detailed the number of loyalist killings...read more
