Bloody Sunday Findings: “Unjustified and Unjustifiable”…
- June 16th, 2010
- Posted by EUEditor
The exhaustive Saville Inquiry into the 1972 “Bloody Sunday” killings in Derry /Londonderry has declared all of those shot by British Paratropers were innocent protestors – not IRA terrorists.
The British Prime Minister said in Parliamnet (15.6.10) the shootings had been “wrong”; grieving relatives and friends expressed relief; security forces waited in Northern Ireland for possible trouble; lawyers for men who’d been in uniform that day, began arguments against their liability. … Read More »
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