Families of IRA victims want Libya to pay
In the wake of the release of the Lockerbie bomber, some victims of violent attacks by the Irish Republican Army are demanding compensation from Libya. They say Libya supplied munitions to the IRA during the height of that group’s violence. And they want the British government to support their demands. The World’s Laura Lynch reports.
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