Bloody Sunday report - The truth never loses its power

EARLY yesterday morning relatives and supporters of the 14 civil rights protestors murdered in Derry on Bloody Sunday marched from Rossville Street, the British army paratroopers’ 1972 killing ground, to the city’s Guildhall, symbolically ending the banned march that was so savagely suppressed nearly four decades ago.

Just like justice they would not be denied, but they, even in their most optimistic moments, could not have expected that the Saville Inquiry would so emphatically, so clearly and without qualification, reject the lies published by Widgery just 11 weeks after the outrage.

They could not have expected that the evil cover up, a primary root for the violence that cost thousands of lives over the following decades, would be so forcefully, so completely removed from the record.