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Catholic victims of 1971 Northern Ireland massacre entirely innocent
Coroner rules that the deaths of a priest and nine lay Catholics shot dead by British troops were unjustified
Updated: May 12, 2021 05:17 AM GMT
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Rita Bonner holds up a picture of her brother John Laverty as she arrives for the verdict at the Ballymurphy Massacre inquest at Waterfront Hall in Belfast on May 11. (Photo: Paul Faith/AFP)
A coroner in Northern Ireland has ruled that a priest and nine lay Catholics who were shot dead by British troops almost 50 years ago were entirely innocent and their deaths were unjustified.
What became known as the Ballymurphy Massacre in Belfast in 1971 remains one of the most controversial incidents in the conflict in the region and, at the time, British authorities referred to those killed as terrorists.
May 12, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: “It is a sad indictment on our society and state that these families have had to listen to misinformation and untruth propagated about their loved ones for almost 50 years,” Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor said following a coroner’s report on the Ballymurphy massacre.
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