Family members of the victims of Ballymurphy celebrate the findings of the report. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters Family members of the victims of Ballymurphy celebrate the findings of the report. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters Thu 13 May 2021 05.00 EDT On the first day of the Ballymurphy massacre in August 1971, I was at my family home in Riverdale, another housing estate in predominantly nationalist west Belfast. I watched a group of young men organising materials for a barricade and stacking crates of petrol bombs. The first internment raids had been launched across Belfast in the early hours of that morning, with the British army rounding up without trial people they suspected of involvement in the IRA. There was an atmosphere of apprehension laced with an almost carnival spirit.