The problem is that is hasn't really ended, has it??
Its a really really difficult situation for politicians. I would not like to be in their position.
However my earlier post stands true, you cannot forget the law in isolated cases, just to make one thing better. Any law system is there to SERVE THE PEOPLE, not the politicians. The only way that this can work, is to pardon EVERY prisoner in the the system. The Yorkshire Ripper should be freed if he promises not to kill anyone else, as should Brady, and Levi Bellfield (Milly Dowler), Rose West, Dennis Nilsen, Jon Venables, Ian Huntley etc etc. The IRA murders killed many more than these people combined. All they have done is promise they won't do it again................ unless Gerry Adams gets charged and then it's all back on........... Can't you see the irony of it all??
As terrible as it is, it is better to restart a war than to let murders go unpunished.