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**Ndptbudd** · 06-17-2010, 04:19 AM

The Guardian, Thursday 17 June 2010
Seamus Mc Clintock

Letters: Bloody Sunday: truth, lies and recriminations | UK news | The Guardian

In response to the statement by the prime minister on the events of Bloody Sunday, I welcome the admission of guilt on the part of the British army on that day and the confirmation of innocence of the victims (Cameron condemns killings and makes a formal apology, 16 June). However, I take offence at the reference made in the speech to the acts of terrorists in Northern Ireland before and after Bloody Sunday.

The marchers on that day were marching for equal rights as British citizens. It was not a march of support for terrorist or political organisations, but a defiant cry against the injustice suffered by the Catholic people of Northern Ireland at that time. The people who died that day were ordinary citizens and to associate those events with terrorism does a disservice to their memory. Perhaps if the British government of the day had acted to right the civil inequality, the events of that day would have been averted.

06-17-2010, 04:19 AM	#3
Ndptbudd Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 536 Senior Member	The Guardian, Thursday 17 June 2010 Seamus Mc Clintock Letters: Bloody Sunday: truth, lies and recriminations \| UK news \| The Guardian In response to the statement by the prime minister on the events of Bloody Sunday, I welcome the admission of guilt on the part of the British army on that day and the confirmation of innocence of the victims (Cameron condemns killings and makes a formal apology, 16 June). However, I take offence at the reference made in the speech to the acts of terrorists in Northern Ireland before and after Bloody Sunday. The marchers on that day were marching for equal rights as British citizens. It was not a march of support for terrorist or political organisations, but a defiant cry against the injustice suffered by the Catholic people of Northern Ireland at that time. The people who died that day were ordinary citizens and to associate those events with terrorism does a disservice to their memory. Perhaps if the British government of the day had acted to right the civil inequality, the events of that day would have been averted.
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