4 FEBRUARY 1997

BRITAIN
Thousands remember Bloody Sunday
HOUSANDS
marked the 25th an-
ni ers ary o! Bl oody
Sunday yesterday by re-
tra"in#
1
the ste$s o! the
%& unarmed men shot
dead by $aratroo$ers
2
in
'ondonderry (Ni chol as
Watt writes).
T
Re l a t i v e s c a r r i e d
crosses with the names of
the men shot by soldiers
from the 1st Battalion, The
Parachte Re!iment on
"anary #$, 1%&2.
"ohn 'me, the local
(P and leader of the na)
tionalist *ocial +emocratic
and ,abor Party, de)
scribed Bloody *nday as
-the most tramatic day in
the lifetime of every citi.en
in the city/. 'e reiterated
#
his call for the 0overnment
to set 1 a new in2iry
3
1
to retrace to go back over
a route exactly
2
paratrooper a soldier
trained to dro !ro" an air#
cra!t by arac$ute
%
to reiterate to say or do
so"et$ing again or re#
eatedly
4
inquiry a re&uest !or in#
!or"ation
into the shootin!s to e4am)
ine evidence that chal)
len!es the conclsions of
the official in2iry, condc)
t ed i n 1%&2 by ,or d
Wid!ery.
The then ,ord 5hief
"stice of 6n!land and
Wales 1held
7
the 1ara)
troo1ers8 claims that they
o1ened fire in the Bo!side
after 9R: !nmen shot at
them when they tried to ar)
rest some of the marchers.
: new boo; claims that
'
to uphold to suort
soldiers o1ened fire from
,ondonderry8s walls, n)
derminin!
<
claims that sol)
diers fired in self)defence.
(r 'me said= -9 ;new
many of the 1eo1le who
were ;illed and 9 ;now that
they were totally innocent.
9t is my intention now to
!et to!ether all the new
evidence
&
with the families
(
to undermine to )eaken
7
evidence in!or"ation t$at
gives a reason !or believing
so"et$ing or roves so"e#
t$ing
and ta;e it directly to the
Prime (inister./
+ic; *1rin!, 9reland8s
+e1ty Prime (inister,
will se a meetin! this
wee; in Belfast with *ir
Pat r i c; (ayhew, t he
Northern 9reland *ecretary,
to call for a new in2iry.
0erry :dams denied
claims by a former 9R: ter)
rorist that he discssed
mrderin! (r 'me in
1%>2. *ean ?85alla!han, a
senior 9R: member in the
1%>$s, said (r :dams dis)
cssed -how to deal/ with
(r 'me. (r :dams de)
scribed his former col)
lea!e as a -frit and nt
case/
>
.
The R@5 shold con)
sider draftin! in 1olice of)
ficers from 6n!land and
Wales in the event of seri)
os riotin!
%
, 1articlarly in
the marchin! season, ac)
cordin! to a 'ome ?ffice
re1ort.
*
a fruit and nut case a
cra+y erson
9
riot violent and illegal be#
$aviour by a large grou o!
eole in order to rotest
against so"et$ing
Relatives bearing crosses and ortraits o! t$e victi"s yes#
terday traced t$e stes o! "arc$ers killed by t$e Ar"y on
Bloody ,unday in 1972- .$otogra$/ 0R1,.12 R34#
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