ICRIR given advice over enabling potential meetings for victims and perpetrators
Sir Declan Morgan said it is something that would be victim-led and done ‘astonishingly carefully’.
Northern Ireland’s legacy body received advice around a potential move to enable victims and perpetrators to meet where there is a desire to, a Westminster committee has heard.
Sir Declan Morgan, chief commissioner at the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) said “extreme caution would be needed”.
Addressing the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Sir Declan said they have considered actions beyond compiling a report on murders and atrocities from the region’s troubled past.
“We’ve looked at whether if victims want to meet perpetrators, or representatives of perpetrators, whether there should be a mechanism for them to do so,” he told MPs.
“The first thing about anything that goes beyond the report that we produce is that it must be victim led.
