The Police Federation for Northern Ireland has urged the British government to scrap plans to legislate on legacy issues.
PFNI chair Mark Lindsay, said: “The draft Bill is flawed. Assessed through tried and trusted justice principles, the PFNI rejects it in its entirety.”
Meanwhile, Relatives for Justice has produced a 39-page document as part of the consultation into how to implement the legacy mechanisms contained in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.
Relatives for Justice CEO Mark Thompson said that “confronting our past openly and honestly is the only way forward”.
“Resorting to walls of silence, closing ranks, lack of corporate memory by any of the conflict actors or relying on national security as a smothering blanket is not the way forward,” he said.
Elsewhere, the Presbyterian Church in Ireland said it remains “greatly exercised that the legal definition of a victim makes no distinction between the perpetrators of violence and those attacked”.
