[Livia]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

"But Col Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan who served 8 tours in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s, said the arrest was “yet another example of this Government allowing British soldiers to be hounded through the courts”.

He said there had been “some very serious wrong doing on behalf of the British Army on Bloody Sunday, but also there was some pretty significant mitigation from the circumstances that they were operating under and direct provocation.”

He said blame should not only be directed at soldiers.

He said: “The spotlight, if anywhere, should fall upon the commanders, not just soldiers, and that includes some very, very senior officers.”
If the Government had released terrorists under the Good Friday peace agreement, then soldiers should not be prosecuted.

He said: “The Government has turned a blind eye to crimes that have been committed and allowed people who have been terrorist commanders to bet into positions of political power.

“If that has been right for the peace process, then it's not right in my view that soldiers should be hounded this way.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...shootings.html

With justifying anything that happened on Bloody Sunday, I agree with this.

[Niamh.]

[Niamh.]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1110/740...investigation/

It is believed the former soldier is also being questioned about the attempted murder of Mr Nash's father Alexander.

He came to the barrier to save his son but was shot in the arm and body.

It is understood the soldier gave evidence to the British government-commissioned inquiry into Bloody Sunday, undertaken by Lord Saville, under the cipher Lance Corporal J.

Kate Nash, William's sister, welcomed the development.

"We have always fought very hard to be treated equally within the justice system," she said.

"I see this as a positive step."

Thirteen people were killed by members of the Parachute Regiment on the day of the incident. Another victim of the shootings died in hospital four months later.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland's murder investigation into the events of Bloody Sunday was launched in 2012.

The probe was initiated after the Saville Inquiry found that none of victims was posing a threat to soldiers when they were shot.

Following the publication of the Saville report in 2010, British Prime Minister David Cameron apologised for the Army's actions, branding them "unjustified and unjustifiable".

In September, the PSNI announced its intention to interview seven former soldiers about their involvement on the day.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1110/740...investigation/

It is believed the former soldier is also being questioned about the attempted murder of Mr Nash's father Alexander.

He came to the barrier to save his son but was shot in the arm and body.

It is understood the soldier gave evidence to the British government-commissioned inquiry into Bloody Sunday, undertaken by Lord Saville, under the cipher Lance Corporal J.

Kate Nash, William's sister, welcomed the development.

"We have always fought very hard to be treated equally within the justice system," she said.

"I see this as a positive step."

Thirteen people were killed by members of the Parachute Regiment on the day of the incident. Another victim of the shootings died in hospital four months later.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland's murder investigation into the events of Bloody Sunday was launched in 2012.

The probe was initiated after the Saville Inquiry found that none of victims was posing a threat to soldiers when they were shot.

Following the publication of the Saville report in 2010, British Prime Minister David Cameron apologised for the Army's actions, branding them "unjustified and unjustifiable".

In September, the PSNI announced its intention to interview seven former soldiers about their involvement on the day.

Yes neem the enquiry stated that a few years ago, noone is disputing what happened just as noone is disputing that the so called IRA or common murdering criminals killed lots of innocent people because they wanted people to think how they thought and if you didnt then they would murder you

[Kizzy]

My feelings exactly, as in the case of the workers at Auschwitz those who give the orders are the guilty party.
It's not a case of murderers hiding behind uniforms, it's people being used as scapegoats and political pawns.

[Cherie]

lthough Ford decided that 1 Para should be deployed as an arrest force on 30 January 1972 in the event of rioting, Saville concluded "he neither knew nor had reason to know at any stage that his decision would or was likely to result in soldiers firing unjustifiably on that day".

• Evidence from soldiers to the inquiry that they had fired after coming under attack was rejected. "We have concluded that none of them fired in response to attacks or threatened attacks by nail or petrol bombers. No one threw or threatened to throw a nail or petrol bomb at the soldiers on Bloody Sunday."

• The credibility of the accounts given by the soldiers was "materially undermined" because all soldiers bar one who were responsible for the casualties "insisted that they had shot at gunmen or bombers, which they had not". Saville said: "Many of these soldiers have knowingly put forward false accounts in order to seek to justify their firing".


http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/j...y-key-findings

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

My feelings exactly, as in the case of the workers at Auschwitz those who give the orders are the guilty party.
It's not a case of murderers hiding behind uniforms, it's people being used as scapegoats and political pawns.

The soldiers has no orders to fire, yet they did, as well as on people running away they also fired on people tending to the dying.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

The soldiers has no orders to fire, yet they did, as well as on people running away they also fired on people tending to the dying.

16 the Anti-Tank Platoon while they were still at the

17 Kells Walk wall, rests primarily on the testimony and

18 recollection of Soldier 027. Although the detail of his

19 account has changed from hearing a shout in 1972 to

20 receiving a radioed order from Major Loden in 1975, the

21 fact that an order was given and then repeated,

22 according to him, is one of the few common elements

23 running through the evidence that he has given.

24 With the possible exception of INQ635, no other

25 member of the Anti-Tank Platoon has given evidence of


1






1 hearing or being made aware of a ceasefire order while

2 they were at that wall

http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org.uk/trans.html

[Crimson Dynamo]

All this does is drag this back into the limelight. As with all situations like this the only solution is to forgive and forget

and move on