NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY AMANDA FERGUSON – 15 DECEMBER 2014
The Lord Mayor of Belfast will attend a special service this afternoon to remember the 11,000 people buried in mass graves in Belfast, including hundreds of babies and children.
During a ceremony at 3.30pm today Nichola Mallon, and deputy mayor, Maire Hendron, will lay flowers at unmarked mass graves at Milltown Cemetery to remember the city’s ‘forgotten babies’ and other poor and marginalised citizens buried there.
It is estimated around 11,000 people are buried in the mass graves at the point where the cemetery meets the Bog Meadows. …
Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland Programme Director of Amnesty International, said: “After the revelations about the mass grave of babies at Tuam, it is more important than ever that we discover of the truth of what happened at Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland, including whether their short lives were, in any way, attributable to neglect or abuse while in care and whether those babies ended up in unmarked graves in the Bog Meadows.
“We have asked the First and Deputy First Minister to establish an inquiry into Mother and Baby homes here, as has been promised in the Republic.
“Unfortunately, eighteen months on from the original request to Ministers, families are still awaiting a response.”
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