NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
21 OCTOBER 2014
The Government’s refusal to investigate a notorious Belfast boys’ home in its UK-wide child abuse inquiry adds to a “conspiracy of silence” over the crimes committed there, Amnesty International has claimed.
The human rights group said victims of a brutal paedophile ring who abused boys from the Kincora home will feel betrayed by the announcement.
It has long been alleged that well-known figures in the British establishment, including senior politicians, were involved in the abuse of vulnerable boys living in the infamous facility in east Belfast in the 1970s.
Moreover it has been claimed that the UK security services knew about the crimes but did nothing to stop them, instead using the knowledge to blackmail and extract intelligence from influential men who were committing abuse.
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