Before the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) was signed on 10 April 1998 over 500 convicted terrorists were released from prison and an unknown number of terrorists who were on the run received comfort letters from the Blair Government so they could not be prosecuted for murder, bombings and other terrorist offences.
Since the signing of the GFA, Northern Ireland veterans continued to be persecuted and investigated about alleged crimes going back more than fifty years and many veterans see this as the government appeasing Sinn Féin/IRA and having nothing to do with justice. The following news reel of three terrorist murders helps illustrate the resentment of many Northern Ireland veterans towards the Blair Government who signed the agreement and successive governments which many veterans feel supported convicted terrorists at the expense of those who served and is posted here for debate.
Alan Malcher 