Northern Ireland amnesty law angers families who say they will be denied justice

FILE PHOTO: Family members of the victims attend a news conference after listening to the findings of the report on the fatal shootings of 10 people in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast in 1971 that involved the British Army, in Ballymurphy, Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government pushed ahead with plans to offer an amnesty to former soldiers and individuals involved in decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland as victims say the new law will deprive them of justice.

Unresolved crimes from Northern Ireland's three decades of confrontation between Irish nationalist militants, pro-British "loyalist" paramilitaries and the British military that killed around 3,600 people remain a contentious issue more than two decades after a peace deal was struck.