An article in today's Newsletter reporting from the Presbyterian Church General Assembly raises alarm at the lack of public discussion on the Consultative Group on the Past report.
Rev Norman Hamilton of the Church and Society Group said: "The legacy of the past hasn't gone away you know - and will not.
Eames-Bradley is not perfect, but the lack of public discussion about the issues it raises and the possible ways forward is profoundly alarming."
The Committee on the Administration of Justice, Transitional Justice Institute and British Irish Rights Watch ran a two-day reflection invovling academics, activists, victims and survivors and more in mid-May and it was good to hear the debate commence. No doubt the post-event report due shortly will continue that discussion.
Two questions, though: why such little debate, and how do we get it going?
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