The Attorney General of Northern Ireland, a man named John Larkin, has proposed that all "Troubles-related" killings prior to the signing of the 'Good Friday Agreement' in 1998 should now be ignored; he believes that we should forget about pursuing the perpetrators whether they be British soldiers or Irish terrorists. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his suggestion appears to have met with a rather frosty response from other members of the Northern Ireland administration.
One has to wonder what planet this man is living on. Recent history sees us chasing down old, and even dead, men who are alleged, though in some cases proven, to have committed an assortment of nasty offences 30, 40 and even 50 years ago, though none of these offences involve the most heinous of crimes, murder. British soldiers are being pilloried over alleged atrocities carried out in Kenya in the 1950s and alleged NAZI war criminals from the 1940s are still being pursued even though they are all at least in their 90s. This man wants to sweep murders from as recently as 1997/8 under the carpet.
Mr Larkin is the most senior law officer in the Northern Ireland administration. One wonders how much longer he will be such.
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