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Related: About this forumBloody Sunday massacre: British ex-soldier arrested on suspicion of murder
Source: Associated Press
Bloody Sunday massacre: British ex-soldier arrested on suspicion of murder
March 14, 2019, 7:42 AM EDT / Updated March 14, 2019, 8:41 AM EDT
By Associated Press
DUBLIN Detectives investigating the biggest mass killing committed by British troops in Northern Ireland, the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972, have arrested on suspicion of murder one of the soldiers who opened fire that day the first detention of its kind following decades of demands for justice.
A special police unit probing killings from the Northern Ireland conflict, the Legacy Investigation Branch, said it was interrogating the 66-year-old former member of the Parachute Regiment, the elite force that shot to death 13 Catholic protesters in the Bogside district of Londonderry. Catholic leaders and lawyers representing relatives of the dead welcomed the arrest and said they expected more retired soldiers to be arrested.
The detained man was identified as a former soldier who had testified, with his identity concealed, to two fact-finding investigations about his role in shooting at protesters when he was a 23-year-old lance corporal. To the fury of Irish nationalists, the original British probe in 1972 exonerated him and the other soldiers.
But after 12 years, the most expensive fact-finding commission in British history concluded in 2010 that the soldiers had opened fire first and without warning, not in response to attacks from the outlawed Irish Republican Army; all but one of the Bloody Sunday victims were unarmed at the time they were killed; and none posed a threat to the soldiers.
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March 14, 2019, 7:42 AM EDT / Updated March 14, 2019, 8:41 AM EDT
By Associated Press
DUBLIN Detectives investigating the biggest mass killing committed by British troops in Northern Ireland, the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972, have arrested on suspicion of murder one of the soldiers who opened fire that day the first detention of its kind following decades of demands for justice.
A special police unit probing killings from the Northern Ireland conflict, the Legacy Investigation Branch, said it was interrogating the 66-year-old former member of the Parachute Regiment, the elite force that shot to death 13 Catholic protesters in the Bogside district of Londonderry. Catholic leaders and lawyers representing relatives of the dead welcomed the arrest and said they expected more retired soldiers to be arrested.
The detained man was identified as a former soldier who had testified, with his identity concealed, to two fact-finding investigations about his role in shooting at protesters when he was a 23-year-old lance corporal. To the fury of Irish nationalists, the original British probe in 1972 exonerated him and the other soldiers.
But after 12 years, the most expensive fact-finding commission in British history concluded in 2010 that the soldiers had opened fire first and without warning, not in response to attacks from the outlawed Irish Republican Army; all but one of the Bloody Sunday victims were unarmed at the time they were killed; and none posed a threat to the soldiers.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/bloody-sunday-massacre-british-ex-soldier-arrested-suspicion-murder-n983096
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Bloody Sunday massacre: British ex-soldier arrested on suspicion of murder (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2019
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lark
(23,105 posts)1. Fucking bloody murdering land stealing Brits.
This was Irish land that the Brits stole for their Lords and to virtually enslave the Irish to work for the benefit of the English masters and not their families. Most of us knew the English were murdering the Catholics, but it's nice to finally have it verified and acknowledged that on Bloody Sunday they murdered the weaponless Irish for no reason other than hate. So freaking glad that conflict finally ended. I am both English and Irish so the two sides of my family were difficult to deal with back in the day.
My father's side is Irish. My Mom is Sicilian. I love them both very dearly.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)2. Reuters reports:
... The welfare of our former service personnel is of the utmost importance, Defence Minister Gavin Williamson said in a statement. Our serving and former personnel cannot live in constant fear of prosecution....
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-nireland-bloodysunday/one-british-soldier-to-face-murder-charges-over-1972-bloody-sunday-reigniting-controversy-idUKKCN1QV1HP
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-nireland-bloodysunday/one-british-soldier-to-face-murder-charges-over-1972-bloody-sunday-reigniting-controversy-idUKKCN1QV1HP
Yes they can, and they should. And so, above all, should any officers and politicians responsible for illegal orders such personnel might think they are required to illegally follow.