Immunity, Impunity and the Challenges we face
Mark Thompson is pleased to be writing on the Compromise After Conflict blog about the issues and contradictions faced by families in courts and...
Mallon Murder Weapon Linked to other collusion cases
By Mark Thompson
The weapon used by the UVF to murder Roseanne Mallon and injure Bridget Mallon was a VZ58 Czech made replica of the...
Bewildering goings on in Inquest Courts
By Mark Thompson
The end of 2014 will hopefully conclude the hand over of all material concerning the shoot-to-kill incidents of late 1982 that claimed...
Black Ops Blacked Out? Fooling No one
The Task Coordinating Group (TCG), the North’s most important ‘security group’ comprised the regional heads of Special Branch, British Army (BA), and intelligence service...
Haas needs to give primacy to victims rights
Perhaps surprisingly, the discussions on how we deal with our past have begun to become quite detailed. Tonight there is discussion on the necessity...
Shoot to Kill Inquests
The end of 2014 will hopefully conclude the hand over of all material concerning the shoot-to-kill incidents of late 1982 that claimed 6 lives...
Murder, Lies and Videotape
By Mark Thompson
This past week started with the opening of the inquest into the 1994 UVF murder of Tyrone pensioner Roseanne Mallon during an...
Hierarchy of Victims Debate Diminishes Us All by Mark Thompson
Flags of Convenience May End Up Creating a Process
Dr. Richard Haass and Megan O’ Sullivan are to examine marches, flags and dealing with the...
HET Red Herrings by Mark Thompson
Ever since Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC) damning report into the PSNI’s Historical Enquiries Team (HET) there has been speculation about the future...
Media, Villiers, Money, Truth & Power – Time for Truth, Time...
Stephen Walker’s BBC reports from the Tory party conference are good focusing as they do on Haass and dealing with the past, in addition...
