Mr. Gerry Adams:

If we preach the word equality, there also needs to be in all of this an equality of victimhood. Edgar Graham is as much a victim of all of this as Pat Finucane.

One could, of course, distinguish between the fact that the British state collaborated in killing one of the officers of the British judicial system and actively recruited, trained, armed and gave intelligence to those who carried it out. There may not be an equivalence between the state carrying out these actions and an armed group carrying them out but for the victims there is obviously an equivalence of loss, of bereavement, of grief and so on.