I know from many visits to Northern Ireland,and from experience within our own family, that society there is still deeply divided. Government at all levels has a responsibility to help people to heal the division. I can make three suggestions for government action: 1: Work on investigating and prosecuting politically motivated crimes committed before 1994…
I attended a moving and powerful Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony yesterday. This annual event provides a focal point around the world to remember the horrors of Auschwitz, Kristallnacht and the March of Death. Holocaust Memorial Day events also recall the genocides since: Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur. Survivors spoke of their losses, and of their…
I have visited this place regularly since 1978. Last week I was invited to come over again by a friend, older than me. The background was one or protests and of violent riots. Sixty-four or more police officers have been injured, many arrests have been made, while buses and cars burned and traffic was disrupted,…
