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General Sir Geoffrey Howlett could be questioned by police over his leading role in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, in August 1971 when ten people were shot dead during an operation.
It was fitting that Trevor Ringland’s polemic – ‘The Hunger Strikers’ political ideology was deeply flawed’ (May 11) – scolding all who honour the memory of the Hunger Strikers, appeared on the same day as the Ballymurphy Massacre inquest verdict.
Families of people shot dead by British soldiers at Ballymurphy 50 years ago have called on the Irish Government to intervene in any attempt to prevent prosecutions of veterans by the British Government. Family members said they would take legal action against any plans to block the prosecution of former British soldiers. Carmel Quinn, whose brother John Laverty was shot dead in the incident in west Belfast, appeared before the Good Friday Agreement Committee in Dublin today. She said Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs to be told 'firmly' that there should no amnesty for soldiers who allegedl...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has issued a public apology for the investigation surrounding the 1971 Ballymurphy Massacre in Belfast. The victims' families, however, have dismissed his apology noting that they had no notice of it and that Johnson apologized for the investigation as opposed to the ten deaths.
British Army found to have massacred unarmed civilians in Ballymurphy, Northern Ireland, in August 1971 A long-delayed inquest into the shooting deaths of 10 people in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast, Northern Ireland has concluded that all were civilians, posed no threat to anyone, were unarmed and that nine of them were shot by the British Army. Coroner Mrs Justice Keegan could not definitively identify the origin of the bullet that shot the tenth person. The verdict was welcomed by relatives and supporters of those killed. John Teggart, whose father Daniel was among those shot dead, addr...