Time for the whole truth on decommissioning - Allister
06 January 2010
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister QC
"With another paramilitary organisation having claimed complete decommissioning, now is the time to bring certainty and transparency to a subject mired in scepticism by publication of full inventories of all weaponry claimed to have been decommissioned by all such groups.
"The International Decommissioning Body claims to hold this information, so why is it continuing to conceal it from the public? Whose blushes, or whose disingenuous manipulation of the process, is being protected?
"Having at various stages been promised by politicians that full transparency, even photographic verification, would attend this process, it is now time for the public to know exactly what has been decommissioned, particularly in circumstances where supposedly decommissioned Provo semtex and weaponry has turned up on active service, be it in explosive devices in Lisnaskea or in murders at Massareene.
"I for one am not naive enough to believe the self-serving affirmations of murderous organisations. If there is nothing to hide then let full inventories be published, as promised within the statutory framework of decommissioning. There must be no welching on this pivotal undertaking."
