I normally avoid posting about political topics, but I can not let pass the publication of the Saville Report, commissioned a dozen years ago by Tony Blair.
The Report is the final declaration of an official inquiry into the deaths of 14 boys and men on Bloody Sunday, 1972, in Derry, Northern Ireland, and the wounding of as many. I have family in Derry, some of whom participated in the civil rights movement and marches and could, as easily, have been killed; they knew some of those who were.
The final report declares that British troops on the ground that day lacked justification for firing upon the marchers. It has taken 38 years for this conclusion to be officially reached - a lot longer than it took the people of Derry and Bishop Edward Daly, Emeritus of Derry, who as a curate ran across the line of fire, carrying a dying youth.
Lord Saville and his panel are to be commended for seeing this matter through to its conclusion.
May the memory of those who marched and died in Derry on that day be eternal.
The Bloody Sunday killings were unjustified and unjustifiable, the Prime Minster has said. [news.bbc.co.uk]
