Claims that babies were used for drug tests gives Irish leaders a chance to acknowledge a dark past. But will they?
This week civil rights campaigners in Ireland have welcomed
the latest report by the UN on the country, its past, and the
unwillingness of today's politicians to address the failings of the
Catholic Church. The UN committee chairman, Nigel Rodley, had this to
say:
He said abuse was so persistent, "it's hard to imagine any
state party tolerating. And I guess I can't prevent myself from
observing that [they] are not disconnected from the institutional belief
system that has predominated in the state party."http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/europe/2014/07/99256.html