NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY MICHAEL MCHUGH – 15 DECEMBER 2014
Calls for an inquiry into “forgotten babies” from institutional homes in Northern Ireland who were buried in mass graves have still not been answered 18 months later, campaigners claimed.
At least 11,000 people are interred in west Belfast on land which used to form a nature reserve.
Hundreds of infants from homes for unmarried mothers and their offspring were routinely placed there without ceremony or marker during the last century, Amnesty International said.
Patrick Corrigan, director at Amnesty in Northern Ireland, said their short lives could be due to neglect or abuse while in care.
“We have asked the First and Deputy First Minister (at the Stormont Executive) to establish an inquiry into Mother and Baby homes here, as has been promised in the Republic.
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