November 11, 2015
By Jordan Rayner
...Families (click here) of some of those who died in one of the most notorious episodes of the Troubles welcomed what they described as a positive step towards justice, but one of the architects of the peace process warned of the "perils" of dredging up the past.
Lord Mandelson, the former Northern Ireland secretary, said the authorities should "think long and hard about the perhaps unforeseen consequences" of arrests, adding that peace in Northern Ireland was "fragile" and there were dangers in anything that might "fire up tensions between different parts of the community".
MPs and former military commanders demanded to know why former soldiers were being investigated for murder when so many former terrorists were released under the Good Friday Agreement....
