The New Evidence

 

 

The following is a summary of material and evidence which has been compiled since Bloody Sunday:

 

Eyewitness Bloody Sunday, The Truth, edited by Don Mullan (1997) includes:

over 500 eyewitness statements

intercepted Army and RUC radio messages

preliminary medical ballistic reassessments

 

The Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry, a Resounding Defeat for Truth, Justice, and the Rule of Law, by Professor Dermot Walsh (1997)

This is a study of recently released statements made by soldiers to the Military Police. This study found substantial inconsistencies and alterations between statements

 

Channel Four News Interviews with soldiers on duty in Derry on Bloody Sunday which show:

Shots were fired from Derry's walls by the British Army

Military command was absent for a time that day during which "shameful and disgraceful acts" were perpetrated.

Officials working for Lord Widgery changed the version of events presented by at least one soldier.

 

A Dublin newspaper, the Sunday Business Post, published an account by a member of 1 Para tells of:

Deliberate killing of unarmed fleeing civilians

Staff of Widgery Tribunal fabricated aspects of this soldier's statement in an attempt to justify the killings.

  101 unpublished eyewitness accounts which were given to the British Government in 1972.

 

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