Bloody Sunday (Derry 1972): New report finds soldiers lied, victims innocent

[Hannah Bell]

I found it interesting that a report on a 30+ year-old massacre can still draw a huge crowd: (see the photo in the link)


The Saville report released on Tuesday stripped away key lies that the British establishment had told for 38 years about the murder of 14 civilians in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972....none of the casualties on Bloody Sunday was posing a threat or doing anything that would justify their shooting.... None of the soldiers fired in response to attacks by petrol bombers or stone throwers...

The report says the soldiers involved in the massacre made “knowingly untrue” statements. It also points out that the soldiers did not fire by accident.

However the report exonerates the British state for the massacre and retells an old lie against one of the victims. Saville dismisses any idea of a conspiracy or cover-up or pre-mediation by the army or the state. He says it cannot be sustained that “either that what happened on Bloody Sunday was intended and planned by the authorities or that it was foreseen by the authorities...”

The declaration that the victims of Bloody Sunday were recognised as innocent was greeted by cheers of the thousands in Guildhall Square, the site of the inquiry and where the original anti-internment march was attempting to reach...

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=21554

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)

[Rhiannon12866]

1. The emotions run strong and probably always will...

;(

[rpannier]

2. The findings of the report are a huge victory

In fairness to their finding that there wasn't a conspiracy... we don't know what information the inquiry had been availed

I realize it was said to be complete, but I'm not totally convinced they made everything available

So, it is possible that based on the evidence that was looked at, there is no evidence of a conspiracy