The British government has announced it will hold a public inquiry into the killing of Pat Finucane. He was a lawyer whose 1989 slaying raised questions of collusion between U.K. security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. Finucane was shot dead in his Belfast home by the Ulster Defense Association, a banned Protestant militia.
Finucane, who had acted for Irish Republican Army suspects, was shot dead in his Belfast home by the Ulster Defense Association, a banned Protestant militia. His death is one of the highest profile killings of Northern Ireland ’s “Troubles,” three decades of violence in which more than 3,500 people died.
Successive British governments declined to hold an inquiry, despite pledging to do so. In a change of stance, the center-left Labour Party government elected in July said Wednesday it would appoint a chair for an inquiry “as soon as possible.”
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