Rejected petition stop the prosecutions of the veterans of the northern Ireland conflict

we should not be prosecuting service veterans in their 70s and 80s of alleged shootings in the province 40 years ago most of these have been investigated on more than one occasion and been cleared.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/219576

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Date submitted 11 May 2018
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