Truth Recovery

• PFC Press Release - Lord Chief Justice admits: "We are breaking the law" - 5 September 2016

• PFC Press Release - "Litvinenko findings – lessons for here" - Jan 2016

• Ann Cadwallader: All sides in the conflict without exceptions violated human rights (Newsletter, 22 January 2016)

• Secretary of State, your Government is in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights () Full Page Advert in Irish News 10 December 2015 International Human Rights Day

• PFC Press Release - Two Governments must not trade away victim’s rights (16 Nov 2015)

• PFC Press Statement - SHA Legislation ‘Act of Bad Faith’ (6 October 2015)

• PFC letter in Irish News re SHA (Oct 2015)

• Evidence to Commission on Security & Coperation in Europe: US Helsinki Commission. Geraldine Finucane, Anne Cadwallader, Prof Kieran Mc Evoy () March 18 2015

• Irish News: Opinion Piece on Stormont House Agreement (28.02.2015)

• Statement given by Minister for European Affairs, Pascal Donohoe T.D. on July 10, 2014 with regards to the Dublin-Monaghan Bombings, the Ballymurphy Shootings, the torture methods shown in the Hooded Men documentary, and the actions of the Military Reaction Force ()

• The New York Times: Don't ignore Northern Ireland's Ghosts (02.05.2014)

• Both UK and Ireland failed to focus on loyalist violence (Irish Times, 8.10.2013)

• Smithwick Tribunal fall-out
  On Tuesday January 28 three retired senior Gardaí criticised the findings of the Smithwick Tribunal of Inquiry into allegations of collusion between members of the Garda and the IRA - see Irish Times article: Three former senior gardaí challenge tribunal findings - Key Smithwick Tribunal conclusions not based on facts, says critique from ex-gardaí
  
  On Saturday Feb 1 the solicitor acting on behalf of the family of RUC officer Harry Breen issued a rebuttal - see Irish Times article: Solicitor defends Smithwick report as ‘nuanced and fair’ - Critique by former gardaí said to display keenness to accept IRA’s version

• Questions of the past should be answered in full (14 November 2013, Belfast Telegraph)

• See report on Truth, Amnesty and Prosecutions - Models for Dealing with the Past () from Kieran Mc Evoy and Louise Mallinder at QUB. This is the document that has prompted the discussion on limited immunity. Well worth discussing (December 2013)

• Boston College asks for Irish project secrecy (Boston Globe, June 9, 2011)

• Billy Wright Inquiry Statement ()

• Victims Debate Westminster Hall extract ()

• The Commission on Victims and Survivors has published a report (June 2010) on Dealing with the Past ()

• see ICTJ report on 'Documenting Truth' () in the transition from conflict to peace - a guide for NGOs

• Commission on Victims and Survivors Survey Public Opinion: Dealing with the Past and Tribunals of Inquiry () (November 2009)

• Can The Past Be Policed?: Lessons From The Historical Enquiries Team Northern Ireland ()
  by Dr Patricia Lundy of the University of Ulster (an earlier draft version was leaked - this is the final version including changes made by the author following feedback)

• see here for the Full Report () of the Consultative Group on the Past (28 January 2009)

• The Truth Commission website provides an extensive background on Truth Commissions worldwide, their implementation mandate etc.

• The International Center for Transitional Justice assists countries pursuing accountabilty for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse

• ‘Making Peace with the Past: options for truth recovery regarding the conflict in and about Northern Ireland’. This report is available at www.healingthroughremembering.org

•  Consultative Group on the Past:
    Full text of speech given by Robin Eames and Denis Bradley at the Innovation Centre, Titanic Quarter Belfast (May 29, 2008) ()

•  Victims’ Groups to call for independent, international Truth Commission (14 January 2008)

•  Truth behind Troubles 'will shock unionists' (Belfast Telegraph, 8 January 2008 )

•  Amnesty International document: Truth, justice and reparation. Establishing an effective truth commission () (11 June 2007)

•  Open letter from Justice for the Forgotten, the Pat Finucane Centre and Relatives for Justice on the announcement of the establishment of a panel to consult on the legacy of the conflict (02 July 2007)

•  So the State Ran Death Squads? (Pat Finucane Centre, 27 June 2002)

•  The Irish News and Daily Ireland published an open letter from the PFC to PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde on April 19 2005. The letter was our response to contradictory statements issued by the NIO and the PSNI in respect of the Historical Enquiry Team or HET. Since publication of the open letter the HET team has confirmed that their role and remit is as outlined by the PFC.
  See also the paper submitted by PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde to a colloquium staged by the School of Religions and Theology and the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin on June 10, 2005 ()

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