Irish authorities still pursuing justice for victims of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre have reportedly taken a 66-year-old former British soldier into custody.
Fourteen died and scores were wounded in the deadly civil rights clash with Britain’s armed forces at Derry Ireland, the aftermath of which catapulted the notorious Irish Republican Army into political prominence.
Despite the United Kingdom’s longstanding justification and cover up of its unwarranted assault on Irish protestors, later investigations revealed that only one of the slain marchers was an actual IRA militant.
Nearly 30 years after the massacre dubbed Bloody Sunday, Prime Minister David Cameron issued a public apology; admitting, belatedly, that England’s oppressive military forces had “acted wrongly.”
Those troops fatally fired hundreds of rounds into crowds of largely unarmed Irish freedom activists -- without warning and in direct violation of prior no-shoot orders issued to all UK soldiers operating in Northern Ireland at the time.
The name of the British suspect who was finally arrested for his role in the infamous mass shooting hasn’t been officially released yet.
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War Crimes, Mass Murder
