13/01/2012
Boston College Promises Confidentiality
Boston College has said that documents in its archive from the body which oversaw paramilitary decommissioning, will remain confidential for 30 years.
This news comes as the college is already in focus over legal action concerning interview transcripts from former paramilitaries.
Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin said he was concerned that the material was being held at the college.
"These papers catalogue the details of the engagement of paramilitary groups with the decommissioning process and for reasons of security and safety it is imperative that these papers are not made public for a sufficient period of time," he said.
However the college told the BBC that "There is no conceivable reason why the British or Irish governments, which set the terms for the International Independent Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) papers when they were sent to the college, would break those terms."
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This news comes as the college is already in focus over legal action concerning interview transcripts from former paramilitaries.
Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin said he was concerned that the material was being held at the college.
"These papers catalogue the details of the engagement of paramilitary groups with the decommissioning process and for reasons of security and safety it is imperative that these papers are not made public for a sufficient period of time," he said.
However the college told the BBC that "There is no conceivable reason why the British or Irish governments, which set the terms for the International Independent Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) papers when they were sent to the college, would break those terms."
(LB)
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