Assembly motion on Libya unfair - Adams

Updated: 20:44, Monday, 14 September 2009

A motion calling for compensation from Libya for IRA victims has been backed by all parties in Northern Ireland's Assembly, except Sinn Féin.

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Compensation claims discussed

A motion calling for compensation from Libya for IRA victims has been backed by all parties in Northern Ireland's Assembly, except Sinn Fein.

The motion, tabled by DUP MLAs Jeffrey Donaldson and Nigel Dodds, called on the British government to put pressure on Libya to award compensation.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said he supported the right to seek compensation, but described the motion as unfair and partisan.

But the DUP's Alex Easton accused the republican movement of being 'morally incontinent'.

Some 200 IRA victims are already involved in the move to extract compensation from Libya.

The legal team involved in the campaign has received hundreds of additional enquiries.

Libya supplied Semtex to the IRA, which was used by bomb-makers during the 1980s and 1990s.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently added his voice to the chorus of demands for reparations from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

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