Adams Speaks Out On Finucane Murder
Speaking from Australia were he is on a week long tour, Sinn Féin president
Gerry Adams has accused the British government of 'hiding behind the Cory
Report for three years and now hiding behind the consequences of it'.
Mr Adams said:
" Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the murder of Pat Finucane in his
North Belfast home. It has now been well established that the unionist death
squad who carried out the attack were being controlled and manipulated at
every level by both British Military Intelligence and the Special Branch.
" Pat Finucane was murdered as a result of Britain's very deliberate policy of
state sanctioned murder. His family have refused to accept the lies and the
barriers constructed by the British state in the years since his murder.
" The demand for a full public, judicial inquiry into the killing of Pat
Finucane is undeniable. The British government hid behind the work of Judge
Cory for three years in resisting this demand and now they are hiding behind
the consequences of it. The British government need to publish the Cory
Report and act upon its recommendations.
" Tony Blair cannot continue to stall. He cannot continue to protect those within the British system who developed the policy of collusion and who are still actively engaged in cover-up and concealment." ENDS