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Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the three part series was presented by Fergal Keane and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In the programme victims and perpetrators of

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meet for the first time. The second show featured

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member

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opposite the relatives of a soldier killed in the

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. In the final programme of the series Milltown Massacre gunman Michael Stone met with the relatives of Dermot Hackett, a

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delivery man he was convicted of killing in 1987. Despite admitting to the murder at the time, Stone stated in the programme that he was not directly responsible, having been withdrawn from the operation after planning it.

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