The Lockerbie Case: A Burns Night message to the Scottish Government

Saturday 25 January 2014

A Burns Night message to the Scottish Government

[Earlier today Justice for Megrahi committee member Iain McKie posted a comment on the thread New questions about the Lockerbie bombing. Since it deserves a wider audience, and this is Burns Night, I reproduce it here:]

Over the decade of campaigning for Shirley we used the words of Robert Burns as our battle cry.

On the anniversary of his birth it seems appropriate to repeat these words and highlight how applicable they are to the present struggle to have the truth behind the tragedy of Lockerbie revealed.

‘There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard,

But they whom the truth would indite.’

[From Here's A Health To Them That's Awa (1792).]

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