Raymond McCord to give evidence at US congress hearing
Thursday, 22 October 2009
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The murky circumstances surrounding a loyalist paramilitary murder 12 years ago will be examined in a US Congressional hearing in Washington today.
The session of a sub-committee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will hear direct evidence from Raymond McCord, whose son Raymond Jnr was beaten to death by a UVF gang in 1997.
Also giving evidence — by video link from Belfast — will be ex-Police Ombudsman Dame Nuala O'Loan. A major Ombudsman's report by Mrs O'Loan in 2007 vindicated Mr McCord Snr's long campaign to expose high level infiltration of the UVF gang by RUC Special Branch.
Speaking from Washington, Mr McCord again challenged the British Government to admit to collusion.
”It would also be a nice gesture if unionist politicians finally accepted the facts on collusion as proven by Mrs O'Loan's report,” he added. Mrs O'Loan, meanwhile, said she was approached by Congress to give the context of her report, “which I'm going to do”.
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There has been a lot of predictable Unionist ire and drum beating in the wake of Gerry Adam's speech for Irish Unity.
Much talk of 'terrorists' who had no respect for human life.
This story is a timely reminder of the state sponsored and supported terror regime that was a constant of the 'Troubles', and the totally unrepentant, dishonest and obstructive government which continues to cover up it's role in wholesale sectarian terror and indiscriminate murder of a minority of what it claimed as it's citizens.
Posted by sam simpson | 22.10.09, 21:24 GMT