Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“If the kite flying in today’s national press proves correct, then amnesty for terrorist murder is shamefully on its way.
“Amnesty for terrorists in the tailwind of action to protect veterans is not acceptable, either by reason of the equivalence it embraces or the disproportionate advantage to terrorists.
“Though the release of prisoners and ‘On the Run’ letters, as props to ‘the process’, were softening up sops towards amnesty, its final delivery is as repulsive as the steps which paved its way.
“Once more, if this proceeds, what we are really seeing is the sanitisation of terrorism, whereby pre-meditated murder and genocidal actions will be excused and innocent victims and those they lost once more demeaned as worthless.”