The Saville report into the 1972 Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry (Londonderry), has been published on 15th June 2010. The report took 12 years to produce, runs to 500 odd pages and makes a single key statement : That the shootings of the marchers by members of the UK Army Parachute regiment were completely unjustified, and that none of the people who were shot were armed or posed any sort of threat to the safety and security of any of the troops that were present.
After the travesty of Justics that was the Widgery Tribunal it is good to see finally a impartial thorough and well rounded report, and it was also refreshing to see a rapid and unequivocal apology from both the UK Government and in particular the UK MOD (Ministry of Defence).
Question still remain about possible future proceedings (the Saville report stopped short of calling the killings unlawful), and there are still question marks over some of the actions of the MOD and the others.
