It ran to 5,000 pages and cost £190.3 million to the end of February 2010. Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment without trial.Fourteen people died: 13 were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. Lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle Lord Widgery claimed that shots had been fired at the soldiers before they started firing.The Widgery report had been released 11 weeks after Bloody Sunday and was criticised as being a “white-wash”. “After the length of time, the detail that is provided in that report, I think you cannot pick and choose the elements of that report that you accept and those that you do not,” he said.Martin McGuinness told the BBC’s Spotlight programme: “To see a British law lord and a Tory Prime Minister point a finger at the British army is a momentous day for the families and people of Derry.”Denis Bradley, the former priest who administered last rights on the day, wrote in the Irish News: “I have never been a supporter [of David Cameron] but, if he was in the room, I would want to shake his hand and compliment him for the leadership he is taking. Everyday low … In 1965, Lewis was beaten by Alabama state troopers in the city of Selma in what became known as “Bloody Sunday." Any prosecutions will be considered independently by the Public Prosecution Service. Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for equality. They have had no costly inquiries and no media interest.”He asked Cameron if he agreed that “the sorry saga of the report is finally over and done with, and that we should look forward, rather than looking back?”Cameron responded: “Let us not pretend that there is not something about that day that needed to be answered clearly in a way that can allow those families to lay to rest what happened.”Martin McGuinness, who the report says, “was possibly” carrying a gun on Bloody Sunday told the Spotlight programme:“I didn’t have a gun.
Bloody Sunday: as former British soldier faces murder charges, Northern Ireland still divided by legacy of violence Connal Parr , Northumbria University, Newcastle Why a …
It is absolutely untrue.”The UUP’s Reg Empey pointed out that 1972 was the “bloodiest” year of the Troubles with 496 people killed. A mural in Bogside in Derry/Londonderry near the site of the events of Bloody Sunday. THE SAVILLE Report's recognition that all of the 13 Bloody Sunday dead and 13 wounded had been innocent sparked an eruption of joy in Derry.