It has taken Britain almost four decades to admit to a war crime in Northern Ireland:
The Bloody
Sunday Inquiry
report found that all those killed were unarmed and that
paratroopers had lost control and opened fire without warning. Some
had been
trying to flee when they were hit and soldiers had made up false
accounts in
a bid to cover up their actions, the report found.
A total of 13 unarmed civilians, seven of them teenagers, died in Londonderry when soldiers from 1st...
Published on June 15, 2010 10:00