Human rights groups have demanded that Theresa May launch a government-wide search for missing papers that they say could provide evidence of human rights violations. “These important historical documents may be a great loss to history – and their disappearance must urgently be investigated.”Amnesty International expressed deep concern that evidence from Northern Ireland and elsewhere is “being allowed to vanish”. “Theresa May must order a government-wide search for these ‘lost’ files and their restoration to their rightful place in the archives at Kew,” said Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland programme director. In some cases, papers from within files appear to have been carefully selected and withdrawn from their collection. Amnesty has formerly argued that the patchwork system of investigation established in Northern Ireland has proved inadequate for the task of uncovering the full truth about human rights violations committed by all sides.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2017 18:16 UTC