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Orgreave: 'We will show what happened was wrong'
As thousands gather at the site where police attacked striking miners, the call for an inquiry is gaining ground, writes PETER LAZENBY
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‘‘We are trying in a small way to retrieve the landscape here and put it into a happier, family context, at least for a day.”
Barbara Jackson, secretary of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC), was speaking to the Morning Star a few hours before hundreds of people began making their way to Orgreave, site 30 years ago of state-organised violence against striking miners in retaliation for their audacity in fighting for their jobs, their industry, their families and their communities.
Pickets at Orgreave, the coking plant which provided fuel for Britain’s steel industry, were surrounded on three sides by massed ranks of police, armed and heavily clad cavalry and riot police wielding shields and batons.
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