THE families of those killed in the Ballymurphy Massacre have proposed the appointment of an independent panel to examine all documents relating to the 1971 slaughter. Eleven people were murdered by the British Army’s notorious Parachute Regiment in the West Belfast estate in a 36-hour period in August in 1971. For decades the families of […]
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Enda breakthrough
THE Ballymurphy Massacre families have welcomed news that Taoiseach Enda Kenny has agreed to meet them to discuss the families’ ongoing campaign calling for a full independent international investigation of the 1971 atrocity.
Families’ joy as inquest is ordered
THE reopened inquests into the deaths of 10 of those who died in the Ballymurphy Massacre will “blow the entire case clean out of the water”, says the daughter of one of the victims.
Pressure mounts on Police Ombudsman Hutchinson to go
Relatives of the Ballymurphy Massacre have joined with other bereaved families seeking justice for their loved ones in calling for the immediate resignation of the Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson.
