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Human Rights Abuses In Northern Ireland

EDM number 138 in 1998-99, proposed by Harry Barnes on 16/12/1998.

That this House notes that, according to the respected Northern Ireland human rights group, Families Against Intimidation and Terror, 1,000 children have been murdered, shot, mutilated, physically and psychologically tortured, beaten, intimidated and exiled in 1998 by Loyalist and Republican paramilitary organisations; further notes that IRA shootings have left eight children without fathers and 32 children with crippled fathers whilst Loyalist shootings have left 26 children fatherless and 27 with crippled fathers; believes that the public should be made more aware of this daily litany of human rights abuses which have been carried out notwithstanding the historic Good Friday Agreement of 10th April 1998 and subsequent massive endorsement of this by the Peoples of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland; recognises that, with the exception of the atrocity in Omagh on 15th August 1998, these human rights abuses were carried out by those terror groups which are represented in the peace process; and forcefully condemns the terror groups' warped definition of their ceasefire as excluding such almost daily abuses of human rights.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Harry Barnes16/12/1998North East DerbyshireLabourProposed
Lembit 16/12/1998MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley16/12/1998Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Martin Smyth17/12/1998Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Vincent Cable17/12/1998TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cryer17/12/1998HornchurchLabourSigned
Evan Harris11/01/1999Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Keetch11/01/1999HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Fearn11/01/1999SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Godman11/01/1999Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Bob Russell12/01/1999ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock13/01/1999Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Clarke13/01/1999Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Tom Brake13/01/1999Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Colvin14/01/1999RomseyConservativeSigned
John Wilkinson14/01/1999Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson18/01/1999Lagan ValleyUUPSigned
Michael Jabez Foster18/01/1999Hastings & RyeLabourSigned
Andrew George19/01/1999St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington25/01/1999Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Roy Beggs26/01/1999East AntrimUUPSigned
Oona King01/02/1999Bethnal Green & BowLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell02/02/1999Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
William Thompson22/02/1999West TyroneUUPSigned
Audrey Wise24/02/1999PrestonLabourSigned
Terry Davis21/07/1999Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned

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