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Families of the people who were killed during the Ballymurphy massacre in August 1971 hold images of their loved ones with supporters outside Belfast Laganside Courts, Northern Ireland, during a new inquest into their loved ones deaths, today
A FORMER British soldier received death threats from paratroopers who raided his home and assaulted him for giving evidence in a 1972 Belfast shooting inquiry, a court heard today.
He was giving testimony in the inquest into the events of August 1971 when British paratroopers opened fire in west Belfast killing 10 people in what has become known as the Ballymurphy Massacre.
The former soldier has been granted anonymity and has been giving evidence at the Belfast inquest under the codename C4.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion