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| John Finucane |
On 12 February 1989, my father, the human rights lawyer Pat Finucane, was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries as we sat together at the dinner table in the kitchen of our home in Belfast. I was eight years old. I sat with my mother, my sister and brother and suddenly ended up squeezed into a corner, as the gunmen fired shot after shot into the prone figure of my father. He was 39 years old when he died.
For 31 years, my family have campaigned to uncover the truth behind the murder. We seek to achieve, in death, the justice that my father fought for on behalf of many other people throughout his working life. We have struggled to achieve that justice in the face of extraordinary adversity, as we have been confronted with resistance from the British government and powerful vested interests within the British state.
Despite the efforts of successive British governments to cover up the truth, a great deal is known about the extent of state collusion in the murder of Pat Finucane and others.
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If he can wait until all involved parties are dead he might get some answers, but it's clear that a certain Special Branch senior cop wanted him gone, and probably because he was a very effective defense Lawyer. A horrible bloody murder that should never have happened.
ReplyDeleteSteve,
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you be quiet, ya orange bastard? All kidding aside. How do you see it when we continuously screamed the British apparatus has no jurisdiction in Ireland. Then with all the victims we could have politicised, we chose one who recognised the British state and appealed to the British public saying look they killed an upstanding member of the community.
I don't mean this to be disrespectful, I'm just curious did we look like tits saying you've no jurisdiction then at the same time saying you'll need to do something about this?
David,
DeleteI get your point but as I pointed out on an earlier thread they are clearly waiting til all concerned parties are in their graves before telling the truth. I'm all for an Amnesty but it must be across the board.
From what I've waded through it seems like that special branch cop was the main instigator and he's dead now, so after all the crap was torched in Seagate there is bugger all left but hearsay.