Archive for 'Bloody Sunday'
Setting the Truth Free
A message from the Bloody Sunday Families and wounded:
To our supporters everywhere
On 30th January 1972, a dark cloud descended upon this beautiful city. It stayed until last Tuesday, 15th June 2010 – over 38 years of a journey. It has now been lifted.
It has been a long journey from the beginning of the Bloody Sunday [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2010 under Bloody Sunday, British army, British government, Consultative Group on the Past, Derry, Irish peace process, accountability, awesome, ballymurphy massacre, culture of impunity, human rights, impunity, ireland, justice, relatives for justice, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth commission, truth recovery process.
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R.I.R. March of Shame
The following is a video taken by Relatives for Justice at yesterday’s British Army/Royal Irish Regiment March of Shame and the sectarian abuse and attack by unionists/loyalists on victims of British state violence during their peaceful counterdemonstration. Towards the end of the video are short comments from Mark Thompson, Bairbre de Brún and Gerry Adams. [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Bloody Sunday, British army, Gerry Adams, RIR march of shame, Sinn Féin, UDA, ballymurphy massacre, belfast, collusion, human rights, ireland, loyalist, relatives for justice, republican, sectarianism.
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Qana, Derry: The Dead Lie in Familiar Shapes
Article by Eamon McCann originally printed on Counterpunch:
It was the sudden eruption at the back of the room upstairs at Sandino’s which brought us eventually to the burial ground at Qana.
At the edge of the village, pictures [...]
Posted: September 4th, 2007 under Bloody Sunday, DUP, Derry, Eamon McCann, Irish peace process, Israel, Lebanon, Qana, Raytheon, Sinn Féin, human rights, ireland, middle east, war.
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Truth last big issue to be resolved in conflict
From Jim Gibney in this week’s Irish News via Newshound:
This Sunday thousands of people from all over Ireland will march to Belfast’s City Hall in memory of the 10 hunger strikers behind a banner calling on the British government to tell the truth about its role in the conflict.
The march organisers – Sinn Féin and [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2007 under Bloody Sunday, British army, British government, Irish peace process, Jim Gibney, Operation Banner, RUC, Sinn Féin, belfast, collusion, human rights, hunger strikes, ireland, policing, relatives for justice, truth.
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Few tears shed
From the Ulster Herald: No misty eyes about ‘Banner’
Few tears will be shed for Operation Banner, the British army’s 38-year involvement in the conflict here. Despite nostalgic footage of housewives treating squaddies to cups of tea, this military adventure should be remembered for some of the most destructive events of the Troubles. British military policy [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2007 under Bloody Sunday, British army, Falls Road, belfast, collusion, ireland, policing, war.
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