Don't like it at all. We can see from this blog how people have totally different slants on the "truth". There is no absolute truth and its pursuit can only be divisive.
Absolutely, each side has their own version of the truth and their own version of justification. However, the T&R process (or idea) is more about the latter notion in the title than the former.
It's divisive enough as it is and it's escalating again. Each side has their martyrs, each side has their victims, each side has been assisted by some official collusion.
For a while it seemed to just be a matter of time where we could wait and let the memories fade and hope that new generations would move on from the divisions of the past and see things, perhaps, through the lens of history rather than fresh wounds. But that didn't happen, without some form of T&R process, sides have perpetuated their individual attrocity, the one reason they have to be ready for revenge and to keep the bitterness going.
A T&R process won't help everyone, but it will help some. Once again the vocal minority helps split neighbours and helps hatred to grow. Why not give the majority a go at this? The majority who just want peace and if that peace comes at learning some truths about just how deep both governments were involved in the troubles so that we can draw a line under it, then let's at least give that one a chance, because at the moment we're sliding back to bad times.
Of course, for the vocal minority, for who hatred and bitterness has practically been forced into their genes, no process will change their minds. They'll cherry pick the bits of any investigation or tribunal that suits them and their agenda and as long as they can maintain power by encouraging hatred around them, they'll gladly do so and by whatever means.
Having said that, Gerry is an idiot and a coward. He's either too stupid or too scared to just call murder murder without measuring his words so as not to offend his extreme members. It shows just how far SF will have to go if they really want to be taken seriously as a party. For all the generalisations about people here and how particular religions give you a predetermined sympathy, at least look to the fact that the vast, vast majority of people have no intention of putting SF into power.
SF should be riding high in the polls, Labour dropped dramatically and the ground was there to pick up votes from the left. Except they can't see beyond the fact that SF have blood on their hands within their current administration (that and absurd economic policies).
Anyway, without a T&R process, things will stay exactly as they are. People will hate and they'll insert their own attrocity in to justify it. With a T&R process, maybe it helps the majority to work towards peace, maybe it just helps a few to change their views to the better. Who knows, and we won't know until we try. We do know the current way isn't working though.