Sir, – Endless calls for “the truth” about what British soldiers did on Bloody Sunday finally brought resolution to long-suffering families and to all Irish people last year. The roles of maverick soldiers were revealed.
It is time for “the truth” about the Disappeared.
We watched years of detailed media coverage of the injustices perpetrated on Bloody Sunday as families and bystanders told their stories.
By contrast, little truth was written about the injustices perpetrated on the Disappeared” and their families. Bystanders feared to speak, while cynical IRA rumours of sightings, kept these IRA atrocities off our front pages. Injustice and further torment was heaped on innocent families.
Who ordered these people to be disappeared? Who ordered 10 innocent children, who had already tragically lost their father to cancer, to be orphaned?
We need an inquiry, which lets former IRA activists testify in anonymity, as Soldier A or Soldier B did in the Saville Inquiry.
No less than the Bloody Sunday families, the families of the Disappeared deserve the truth now. They have waited and suffered long enough. – Yours, etc,
MARIE MOYNIHAN,
St Enda’s Park,
Rathfarnham,
Dublin 14.