The Northern Ireland Veterans Movement (NIVM) supports the British government’s proposal to introduce a statute of limitations for the killings left over from the troubled era.
NIVM said in a statement that the statute of limitations plus termination of legal aid and funding for legacy cases will prevent “expensive and seriously flawed propaganda offensives.”
They added: “There are no more performance trials, no more legacy investigations that cost millions of pounds, no more expensive police investigations against security forces.”
“With this assurance, we will go all out to support any proposed legislation.”
Last month, the Secretary of State of Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis announced a statute of limitations plan that will end all prosecutions for troubles prior to April 1998 and will apply to veterans and former paramilitary personnel.
These proposals, where Boris Johnson It said that Northern Ireland will be allowed to “draw the line under trouble” and will also end all remaining investigations and civil litigation related to the conflict.
The plan was severely criticized by all major political parties in Northern Ireland and the Irish government. government And a series of victim and survivor groups.
A sort of British government The spokesperson said: “The government is committed to continuing to engage with a range of stakeholders to find solutions to the remaining issues, with the focus on reconciliation, providing better results for the victims, and ending the investigation cycle that does not work for anyone. .”
