Jean McConville with two of her children shortly before her disappearance. Photograph: REUTERS
US Ruling Reopens Old 'Troubles' In Northern Ireland -- Christian Science Monitor
A Boston College research project meant to collect testimony about Troubles-era crimes may now be a political time-bomb for Northern Ireland, thanks to a federal appeals court ruling.
When Boston College launched its Belfast Project the aim was to create an insiders' oral history of Northern Ireland's so-called "Troubles" by collecting the testimonies of participants on all sides of the conflict. What no one expected was for history to rear up and become the present once more.
That is precisely what has now happened as a US federal appeals court has ruled that the researchers' right to free inquiry is overridden by the British state's right to investigate past crimes.
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My Comment: Even though this murder happened 40 years ago .... the IRA are still afraid of the truth.
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