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The Brighton Bomber In Parliament

How do former enemies or simply victim and perpetrator — reconcile after acts of extreme violence? It's an extremely difficult path but not impossible, as Jo Berry and Patrick Magee show

 

Last night, twenty-five years and a day after the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton in an attempt to kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and other members of the British government, the man who planted that bomb and the daughter of one of those he killed shared a platform in the UK Parliament

The full transcript of the meeting — jointly hosted by The Forgiveness Project and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues — will be published shortly.  But earlier in the day they gave an extended joint interview to the BBC World Service. Listen by clicking 'Read More'.

 
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TODAY'S QUOTATION
The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence. | Maria Montessori

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