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UK security services helped devise act that gave amnesty over Troubles killings
Revelation that policing and state agency figures were in secret policymaking group angers victims’ groups The British security services were involved in formulating the controversial Legacy Act, which offered an amnesty to soldiers and paramilitiaries despite MI5’s role in many killings during the Northern Ireland Troubles, it can be revealed. The presence of policing and state agency figures among a secret policymaking group involved in devising the act – a fact established through an investi…
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