alphonse
Jedi Master
Many of you will be familiar with this massacre that took place on the streets of Northern Ireland 38 years ago,
It has taken nearly 40 years to get the the British authorities to admit to the lies that were used as justification for the Army's brutality on that day.
On Sunday the 30th of January 1972 in a Suburb of Derry in Northern Ireland, British Soldiers from the Parachute Regiment fired live ammunition into unarmed crowds and shot around 26 civilian civil rights protesters.
14 people died, seven of them just teenagers. 4 were shot in the back, one of them was already lying injured in the floor, and another, kneeling to help him was also shot.
The dead included men waving white hankies, and an amateur camera man. It is certain that 3 of those murders, and possibly a fourth, can be attributed to one man - a soldier known only as “Solider F”. The army claimed they were defending themselves against guns and nail bombs, even though all the other witnesses, protesters and journalists alike, whether Catholic and Protestant said that the protesters were completely unarmed.
An early and rushed inquiry in to the events ten weeks later cleared the army of any wrong doing and was widely claimed to be a “whitewash” The surviving victims and relatives of the dead, amongst many others, campaigned for many years for a thorough inquiry. Tony Blair called for a new inquiry in 1998 and appointed Lord Saville to head the investigations. The results of the “Saville Inquiry were made public yesterday
The inquiry found that the soldiers “lost control” and then lied to hide the facts. Lord Saville went on to conclude that "The firing by soldiers of 1 PARA on Bloody Sunday caused the deaths of 13 people and injury to a similar number, none of whom was posing a threat of causing death or serious injury”
It has taken 38 years for the relatives of the dead and victims of this crime to get proper recognition that they were innocent, and murdered. David Cameron , the new Prime Minister has apologised on behalf of the British Government……..but what next? Will the army admit their guilt? Will any one be brought to justice?
I seriously doubt it.
A little more info:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/10287463.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/10324507.stm
It has taken nearly 40 years to get the the British authorities to admit to the lies that were used as justification for the Army's brutality on that day.
On Sunday the 30th of January 1972 in a Suburb of Derry in Northern Ireland, British Soldiers from the Parachute Regiment fired live ammunition into unarmed crowds and shot around 26 civilian civil rights protesters.
14 people died, seven of them just teenagers. 4 were shot in the back, one of them was already lying injured in the floor, and another, kneeling to help him was also shot.
The dead included men waving white hankies, and an amateur camera man. It is certain that 3 of those murders, and possibly a fourth, can be attributed to one man - a soldier known only as “Solider F”. The army claimed they were defending themselves against guns and nail bombs, even though all the other witnesses, protesters and journalists alike, whether Catholic and Protestant said that the protesters were completely unarmed.
An early and rushed inquiry in to the events ten weeks later cleared the army of any wrong doing and was widely claimed to be a “whitewash” The surviving victims and relatives of the dead, amongst many others, campaigned for many years for a thorough inquiry. Tony Blair called for a new inquiry in 1998 and appointed Lord Saville to head the investigations. The results of the “Saville Inquiry were made public yesterday
The inquiry found that the soldiers “lost control” and then lied to hide the facts. Lord Saville went on to conclude that "The firing by soldiers of 1 PARA on Bloody Sunday caused the deaths of 13 people and injury to a similar number, none of whom was posing a threat of causing death or serious injury”
It has taken 38 years for the relatives of the dead and victims of this crime to get proper recognition that they were innocent, and murdered. David Cameron , the new Prime Minister has apologised on behalf of the British Government……..but what next? Will the army admit their guilt? Will any one be brought to justice?
I seriously doubt it.
A little more info:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/10287463.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/10324507.stm
