Stormont Votes Against Ballymurphy Massacre Inquiry

Fionnghuala
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:25:10 +0000
Stormont, Community, Imperialism, Repression, Ulster, Opinion, Analysis, Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird

Today the story broke that an ex-soldier has been arrested in connection with Bloody Sunday in which 13 people (and another who later died from his injuries) were murdered at a protest against internment in Derry's Bogside on 30 January 1972.

The soldiers involved in the massacre, the Parachute Regiment, were involved in another massacre less than six months prior to this. In August 1971, 11 people were murdered over a period of three days by the Parachute Regiment in Ballymurphy in the west of the city - 10 were shot and another suffered a heart attack after a confrontation with a soldier in which it is alleged that the soldier put an empty gun into his mouth and pulled the trigger.