[This is the text of an article published in the Belfast Telegraph 5.08.09] It isn’t hard to predict what the first item on the agenda of the new Victims Forum will be. As representatives of the different victims groups come together, and look across the table at people from groups they don’t like, they will [...]
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Recognition Payment: if it was a good idea last year, why is it not one now?
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Victims Commissioners Supported Recognition Payment
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Denis Bradley of the Eames Bradley Consultative Group on the Past has revealed that the proposal to pay £12,000 to victims families, was endorsed by the Victims Commission. He disclosed this at a panel discussion at the John Hewitt Summer School, chaired by myself. Victims Commissioner Mike Nesbitt was also on the panel. After a [...]
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