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May 13, 2021 09:01:02 am Inquests into the deaths of 10 people in Northern Ireland’s capital Belfast during a British Army operation in August 1971 concluded on Tuesday that all of them were civilians who posed no threat to the soldiers, and that the use of force by the army was “clearly disproportionate.” Between August 9-11, 1971, during The Troubles, in Belfast’s Ballymurphy area, the Parachute Regiment of the British Army arrested and detained people suspected to be members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which opposed the British rule. This was part of the army’s rounding ...

» Peadar Whelan The families of ten nationalist civilians shot and killed by the British army in Ballymurphy in August 1971 welcomed the findings of coroner Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan who declared all of the dead innocent and found that the British army used disproportionate force when killing their loved ones in a series of shootings known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. However their elation was “stolen” from them by the refusal of British Prime Minster Boris Johnston to apologise directly to the families for the actions of the British state and the British army. A statement released by 1...

BELFAST: Calls are growing for the UK government to issue an apology to the families of 10 civilians killed in west Belfast in 1971.Fresh inquests into the deaths involving the Army concluded that...

A Downing Street spokesman says the PM apologised but some families reject his remarks.

BBC News Published media captionBrandon Lewis said the PM would write to the families The UK government "profoundly regrets and is truly sorry" for the events surrounding Ballymurphy in 1971, the NI secretary has told Parliament. Brandon Lewis said this also extended to the families for the "additional pain" they have had to endure and at how investigations were handled. An inquest found 10 people, who were shot in the wake of an Army operation in Belfast, were "entirely innocent". One of the victims' relatives asked why the apology was not made by the PM. Briege Voyle, whose mother Joan Con...