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Why do some Troubles veterans face prosecution?

Measures to enhance the protection for service personnel facing claims of criminal acts abroad will not apply to those who served in Northern Ireland.

Families of those shot by British servicemen want to see some retired soldiers face investigations.

But retired veterans, and some MPs, are pressing the government to stop the prosecutions that reach back to the 1970s.

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