No shoot-to-kill policy on Bloody Sunday, Inquiry told

Britain’s most senior frontline officer on Bloody Sunday today denied that 13 unarmed civilians were killed because the British army was trying to make his suggestion to shoot rioters into a reality.

In his written statement to the Bloody Sunday inquiry General Robert Ford, 78, the Commander of Land Forces, also said there were “no plans to provoke a confrontation with the IRA” or to give Bogsiders “a rough handling” to teach them who was in charge.