The Springhill massacre - Adams demands an inquiry
On a summer's day, similar to the Sunday 27 years ago on July 9 when
British snippers opened fire without warning from Corry's timber yard
and murdered five local people, including children and a priest, the
Sinn Féin President and local West Belfast MP, Gerry Adams demanded a
``full independent public inquiry'' into the killings.
Adams added that such an inquiry ``would open up the can of worms that
is British collusion''.
At the official opening on Tuesday morning of a remembrance garden to
all the people killed in the area in the last 30 years but
specifically to those five people killed in the Springhill massacre
in 1972 after the introduction of internment, Adams said there was no
way to bring back the dead and that no compensation would be enough
but that the families ``want the truth.
``Unless everyone can share in the truth, and share in the future, the
peace process is academic. There can be no equivocation, no section
of the community has a monopoly on suffering.''
Following a minute's silence, a spokesperson for the Relatives for
Justice announced that a public hearing into the murders will be held
in Belfast on 2 August. Don Mullan, who was an integral part of the
push for a new inquiry into Bloody Sunday said: ``This will lay the
foundations for an independent public inquiry. It was Belfast's
Bloody Sunday.''
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