Inquiry Updates

In a statement today, the chair of the Bloody Sunday Trust, Robin Percival said:

"The campaign to achieve justice and truth about Bloody Sunday enters what we hope will be its final stages when the Bloody Sunday Inquiry resumes it public hearings this Monday. This may well be the final chance we have to secure from Britain a full acknowledgement of the terrible injustices that were committed that day and to take positive action to vindicate the dead and wounded and, of course, the organisers of the Civil Rights march who were specifically vilified by Widgery.

"Bloody Sunday has come to represent in a very special way all the innocent people killed by Britain in Ireland over the past 30 years. Whilst grief and suffering have been shared by many, across different communities and nationalities, of all the parties to the conflict, Britain alone has refused to date in any shape or form to acknowledge its role in maintaining injustice and inflicting suffering and death during the present conflcit. It is our hope that through the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Britain may begin to come to terms with its own appalling record on human rights, including the denial to the right to life.

"That is why at this time it is important for everyone in Derry who shares our concerns to add their support to the Bloody Sunday Charter and to take part in Sunday night's rally in support of truth and justice."