Truth needed about who armed the loyalists
'It was subsequently reported in London's Private Eye that Nelson's role in traveling to South Africa and purchasing the weapons for loyalists had been approved by a member of the British Cabinet at the time.'
'Loyalists were re-armed in late 1987 when MI5's Force Research Unit (FRU) dispatched their agent Brian Nelson with the proceeds of a Northern Bank robbery in Portadown to South Africa...read more  |
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More stalling tactics by the PSNI into Inquest of
Yet more stalling tactics by the PSNI into Inquest of SAS killings of two IRA Volunteers
Speaking after this morning’s preliminary inquest hearing into the British army’s SAS killings of Martin McCaughey and Dessie Grew, Peter McCaughey, Brother of Martin, issued the following statement through Relatives for Justice (RFJ);
‘The families have already taken the case concerning the killings...read more |
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Up-date reports from Coroners Court Belfast
Thursday 17th September 2009 Preliminary inquest hearings into the murder of 76 year-old Roseanne Mallon, murdered by the UVF in an attack on her home on the outskirts of Dungannon Co Tyrone in May 1994 and which also left Mrs. Bridget Mallon wounded, and the death of US citizen John Hemsworth who died several months after beingviolently assaulted by the RUC while making his way home from a GAA...read more |
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Norman Tebit comments BBC Politics Show
Responding to comments made by former Tory minister Norman Tebit on the BBC's Politics Show in which he hoped that the darkest, nastiest corner of hell could be reserved in which pain could be administered to those responsible for the Brighton bomb rfj Chairperson Clara Reilly said: 'Obviously Mr. Tebit is a deeply hurt individual who has great difficulty in reconciling his victim hood and...read more |
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Letter by one of RFJ’s Board of Directors John
As a person affected by state violence in the north I take offence at the BBC’s compulsory poppy wearing policy/directive to its presenters. As do the overwhelming majority of nationalists and republicans within the north.
In a politically divided society, in which symbolism can often be at the heart of, the BBC has failed to display any sense of impartiality concerning both its role as a...read more |
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Opinion article for Belfast Media Group by RFJ
So there’s to be yet another concession to the DUP with twenty-million pounds for the part-time reserve of the PSNI, which is essentially the old RUC reserve, in the form of a ‘one off gratuity payment’.
We have already had numerous initiatives benefiting the RUC such as the Patten Severance payments and eleven-million to the ‘George Cross Foundation‘. Also the UDR and RIR have had what the...read more |
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