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Article: After 3 1/2 years, Northern Ireland's `Bloody Sunday' investigation hears last witness
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- February 13, 2004
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SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
02-13-2004
Dateline: LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland
A mammoth investigation into a British army massacre of Londonderry protesters heard testimony Friday from its 919th and final witness, the city's former IRA commander on the day of "Bloody Sunday" 32 years ago.
But the English, Australian and Canadian judges overseeing the Bloody Sunday Inquiry face at least another year of sifting through mountains of evidence before publishing their conclusions about the Jan. 30, 1972, killings.
Elite paratroopers that day stormed through Irish Republican Army-erected barricades and shot to death 13 Catholics who had been protesting against Britain's ...