Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I am fascinated by his preoccupation with these issues when I contrast it with his total silence in respect of the many people whose bodies, showing signs of torture, were found on the Border with their hands tied behind their backs and a hole in their head from a bullet wound. We are told that these were the products of a court martial by the so-called republican movement. In fact the people were tortured into making confessions. They made confessions on tape and the tapes were sent to their families. The only reason they made the confession was to stop the torture in the hope that they would be excused further torture.

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