Are the families of those who carry out terror attacks 'victims' too? There's controversy in Northern Ireland today over a proposed $20,000 government payout to all families bereaved in the conflict there - whether their loved ones were civilian bystanders or the bombers themselves. Between 1969 and 1998 more than 3,000 people died in 'The Troubles'. "There's no difference in a mother's tears," is one reason given for the proposed payouts. The idea comes in a report by Northern Ireland's Consultative Group on the Past. But there were angry protests at the report's publication in Belfast today. Ed Stourton, anchor of BBC Radio 4's Today show, discussed the controversy with one of the report's authors - the former leader of the Anglican Church of Ireland, Lord Eames.
Aftermath of Enniskillen bombing, 1987
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