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Article: Northern Ireland: Bloody Sunday inquiry promises the whole truth Twenty-eight years on, most expensive British inquiry reopens to find out why 13 civilians were shot dead by paratroopers
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2000
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THE HISTORIC inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings, one of the
most violent, emotive and painful episodes of recent British history,
began yesterday with a promise that the truth shall be sought
whatever the political consequences.
Lord Saville of Newdigate's inquiry, the biggest in Britain, has
already reopened old wounds and rekindled bitter memories in seeking
to answer how and why 13 civilians were shot dead by paratroopers on
the streets of Londonderry.
Many prominent Unionists and senior army officers see the
tribunal, 28 years after the event, as an act of betrayal and a sop
to republicans. An inquiry by Lord Widgery soon after the shooting on
January 30, 1972, exonerated the ...