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Home › Forums › Modern Europe › Reparations for the Troubles?
Apparently the NI government is going to give money to the victims' families. However, there's some controversy considered some of the victims were members paramilitary groups.http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/anger-and-hurt-on-a-day-aimed-at-healing-14161047.htmlThe article comments are interesting, to say the least. There's still a real lot of tension over there. :-
I read this same article yesterday and fund it interesting. How do you place a value on human life? This is the central problem I have with talk of reparations anywhere. There are bound to be those that think they did not get paid enough and agitate for payments to be bigger. This will only create another angle for renewed hatred.Wouldn't a memorial to the dead of both sides be more fitting? At least then all that could be argued about is what the memorial should look like.
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