Personal stories told to the hearing outlined illegal adoption practices including forced separation of mothers from children, vaccine trials on children without consent, and forced labour in terrible conditionsTHERE were emotional scenes in the European Parliament when survivors of Ireland’s ‘mother and baby homes’ were hosted in Brussels by Sinn Féin to give first-hand accounts of the trauma they went through and have lived with for decades since.Survivors had the chance to tell their harrowing ordeals to a hearing and to meet with MEPs, representatives of the European Commission and Amnesty International in the hope that the European Union will help them in pressuring the Irish Government to treating their demands for justice as a priority.The group had also hoped to discuss the issue with a spokesperson for the Irish Government Permanent Representative to the EU but, incredibly, they refused to meet them.A furious Niall Meehan of the Bethany Home Survivors group said the Irish Permanent Representative was “abdicating their responsibility by not being here. It’s their job in the EU to represent the interests of Irish citizens and the Irish state.”
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 15:08:47 +0000
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