All killings by British troops during NI"Troubles" to be reinvestigated

According to the Sun( www thesun.co.uk, December 8, 2016), it seems that ALL cases of killings by British soldiers and Marines during the NI"Troubles" will be reinvestigated by the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland- successor to the RUC- Royal Ulster Constabulary). Predictably we shall hear howls of "witch hunt", but it seems obvious to all but the most obsessively fanatical that quite a few killings carried out by"Our Boys" during the "Troubles" were( pace "Bloody Sunday" in which 14 Civil Rights demonstrators in Derry on Janaury 30, 1972 were gunned down by soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment or 1 PARA in Armyspeak) of questionable nature, esp those of children and other noncombatants by troops or police using the infamous "plastic bullet"(now renamed the"baton round" such as Carol Anne Kelly, Julie Livingstone in Belfast in 1981 and Stephen McConomy in Derry the following year).

True there were instances in which soldiers used lethal force to defend themselves against paramilitaries such as the so-called "Loughgall Massacre" in which an entire "Active Service Unit" was killed in an ambush by the Special Air Service(SAS) in May 1987 and many more "squaddies" and RUC men have been killed by the IRA than vice versa, but all in all, more than a few of these killing strike me as dubious to put it mildly.

Arguments that many of the soldiers or Marines concerned are now old men and presumably should be allowed to live out their declining years in peace ( usually by the "red top tabloids") are HOGWASH.

Firstly there is NO concept of a statute of limitation for murder and other violent crimes in either military or civilian laws( as for war crimes or crimes against humanity or even simple child abuse- witness the conviction of comedian Rolf Harris for acts of abuse that took place DECADES ago).

Whataboutery is also an argument but to quote the late Cardinal Cathal Daly during the "Troubles"- "whataboutery" is the most common form of moral evasion extant!

Anybody think as I do?

Terry

Hopefully they get somewhere with this. The Troubles were a horrible time in history. It was basically the 20th century's equivalent of the war on terror.

Coming from a person with relatives who were closely involved in the Northen/South conflict, this is silly. Let bygones be bygones and try to heal instead of re-igniting old hatereds