Republican News · Thursday 23 January 1997

[An Phoblacht]

Bloody Sunday
pressure mounts

The 25 year campaign to prove that Bloody Sunday was state sponsored murder is now putting the British government under enormous pressure to open a new public inquiry into the deaths.

More and more evidence is being released to show that the Parachute Regiment in Derry in January 1972 mounted a planned operation to murder civil rights protestors. And more evidence has been promised.

It is to the credit of the tireless campaigners - many of them relatives of those who were murdered on Bloody Sunday - who have gone back to original sources to put together a picture of the events of that day. Their relentless search for the truth is now shaking the British state. Justice.cannot be denied much longer.

For Britain to admit that Bloody Sunday was murder would go to the core of their rule in Ireland because it was only the first of many shoot-to-kill operations.

This key event in Irish history can never be considered a closed chapter until the full truth of British army and British government responsibility is revealed and acknowledged by the guilty. Only then will justice have been done.

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