Report says Legacy Act designed to curtail efforts to achieve accountability
Britain acted with an impunity that was “widespread, systematic and systemic” in regard to state killings, torture and collusion during theThis indicated an “extraordinary level of institutional failure” by the British state, the report concluded. “The evidence does not point to ‘a few bad apples’.”, which comes into effect on May 1st and will replace criminal and civil cases and inquests with inquiries carried out by its own investigative body, the ICRIR.
The 200-page report, Bitter Legacy: State Impunity and the Northern Ireland Conflict, is to be launched in Belfast on Monday morning. Complaints of torture and ill-treatment by the security forces and allegations of collusion also went uninvestigated, with collusion “clearly regarded by the British state as a useful tactic”, the report noted.
“The failure of the state to provide accountability, truth, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition has had and continues to have negative consequences on victims, relatives, communities and societies at large,” it concluded.
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