Yesterday's Spotlight programme highlighted the campaign, by victims group FAIR, against the Libyan dictatorship responsible for IRA murder due to Colonel Gaddafi's supplying weapons and financial support to the provisionals.
Willie Frazer, the head of Families Acting for Innocent Victims (FAIR), has been a very outspoken campaigner for IRA victims including many members of his own family; to republicans however he is a bigoted "Brit", an image not helped by Frazers prickly demeaner or past associations with unsavoury characters - but his suffering has been very real and is in the end deserving of sympathy.
After a decade in the wilderness Frazer and FAIR were recognised as representing a silent but very real and long suffering set of victims. Documents leaked to the press showing the breathtaking lack of concern for victims of the IRAs Libyan connection finally pushed the British government into action.
Now perhaps a few innocent victims of the IRAs international terrorism will be compensated or recognised. It remains to be seen if it is really a meaningful gesture and that nothing will be gained by provo-terrorist elements or their sympathizers.
The Provos of course speak of not acknowledeging a "hierarchy of victims" which is provospeak for "republicans are top of thier own hierarchy".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nnnv8
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