{"id":399280,"date":"2019-03-13T07:21:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-political-classs-disregard-for-irish-life\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T07:21:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:21:43","slug":"the-political-classs-disregard-for-irish-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-political-classs-disregard-for-irish-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Class\u2019s Disregard for Irish Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The families of the 13 innocent people shot dead by the Parachute Regiment when they took part in a civil rights march against internment without trial in Londonderry in 1972 will learn in the coming week if soldiers, who are alleged to have carried out the killings, will be prosecuted.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt about what happened on\u00a0Bloody Sunday<\/a>\u00a047 years ago since Lord Saville\u2019s report, 5,000 words long and the fruit of 12 years\u2019 work, was published in 2010. It concluded that none of the casualties shot by the soldiers \u201cwere posing any threat of causing death or serious injury\u201d. It said that all soldiers bar one responsible for the casualties \u201cinsisted that they had shot at gunmen or bombers, which they had not\u201d. Saville added that \u201cmany of these soldiers have knowingly put forward false accounts in order to justify their firing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Saville said the report was \u201cabsolutely clear\u201d and there were \u201cno ambiguities\u201d about events in the city on that day. David Cameron later told the House of Commons that \u201cwhat happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable. It was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

But eight years after Cameron had apologised, the Commons heard another story from the Northern Ireland secretary,\u00a0Karen Bradley<\/a>, who said this week that the deaths caused by the British security services during the Troubles were \u201cnot crimes\u201d but people acting \u201cunder orders and under instruction and fulfilling their…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo Source SeanMack \u2013 Wikimedia Commons The families of the 13 innocent people shot dead by the Parachute Regiment when they took part in a civil rights march against internment without trial in Londonderry in 1972 will learn in the coming week if soldiers, who are alleged to have carried out the killings, will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}