Mr. Andrew Pollak:

I will not add very much. I just want to say that one of the most powerful presentations at our conference last month was from a man who was the senior negotiator for the Colombian Government in its negotiations that led to the peace process with FARC in that country. He said the one thing that was missing from the Irish peace process was legacy and the way to provide recompense and truth to the many victims, survivors and their families. He showed a moving video where a senior Colombian army officer stood up and addressed the mother of a victim of an atrocity that he had overseen. He apologised and said he was sorry. It was a very moving film. That has never happened here. I do not know if a senior British Army officer or a senior Provisional IRA combatant would do that but what is happening now in the North is not working. Trying to do it through legal and juridical forms is not working. A tiny handful of people, mainly those in Derry and Ballymurphy, have had any kind of recompense or truth. It is time, as Mr. Green said, to give a truth recovery process, based on relatively successful experience in countries like South Africa and Colombia, a try in Ireland.