N. IRELAND: MARCH TO REMEMBER THOSE KILLED ON BLOODY SUNDAY

Описание: (1 Feb 1998) English/Nat

Hundreds of people gathered in Londonderry, in Northern Ireland, on Sunday to remember those killed on Bloody Sunday, 26 years ago.

Fourteen people died when British troops fired on Catholic demonstrators on the 30th of January, 1972.

The incident is regarded as a key moment in the country's history as it helped galvanise support for the outlawed Irish Republican Army.

At a press conference held at the Trinity Hotel Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness said he wanted to see prosecutions result from the judicial inquiry announced last week by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Earlier in the day, in heavy rain, relatives of the dead laid wreaths at the Bloody Sunday memorial in Londonderry.

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The whole Bloody Sunday issue has massive implications for the British establishment, for the present British government and for the rule of the securocrats within our lives over the course of the last 30 years."
SUPER CAPTION: Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And I certainly do believe, given all that's happened over the last 30 years, that if people such as General Ford and others are found to be complicit in the killings on that day then I think that they should be subjected to proceedings in the court."
SUPER CAPTION: Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We hope that our influence and our pressure on our colleagues in London would be enough to make the new initiative by Tony Blair, to make a commission on Bloody Sunday, will be taken seriously."
SUPER CAPTION: Lode Van Oost, MP, Belgium Green Party

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