The British government has been accused of dragging its heels over the setting up of public inquiries into controversial killings in the North.
Sinn Féin vice-president Pat Doherty said there was a real concern about the lack of movement on three public inquiries the British government pledged it would set up following the release of reports by the Canadian judge Mr Peter Cory.
Judge Cory, who was asked in 2001 by the Irish and British governments to consider the cases of six murders, called for inquiries into the murders of Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson, Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright and the murder of Robert Hamill in Portadown in 1997.
Mr Doherty said: "The British Government received Judge Cory's Report last October. They sat on it for months before finally publishing a censored version.
"At that time they committed themselves to holding three public inquiries but have repeatedly failed to give such a commitment in relation to the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.
"Yet months on it seems that little actual progress has been made on establishing the three inquiries which the British Government has announced are to go ahead. I would share the concerns raised by these families over the current slow pace being adopted by the British government," the West Tyrone MP said.
"Given the record of the British government in these maters and the culture of concealment which exists at the heart of the British system there is obviously real concern that there are those within that system who are determined to continue to suppress the truth. That would be completely unacceptable."
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