British government to publish long-awaited report into Bloody Sunday killings June 15
By APWednesday, May 26, 2010
UK to publish Bloody Sunday report June 15
LONDON — Britain’s government says the long-awaited report into the Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland will be published June 15.
A commission was created in 1998 to examine why British troops fired into a crowd of unarmed Catholic demonstrators during a protest in the city of Londonderry in January 1972. In all, 13 people were killed and another 15 wounded.
The report’s publication was announced Wednesday in a written statement to the House of Commons.
Prime Minister David Cameron will make a statement to lawmakers at the time the report is published, and a full debate on its contents will be held in the fall.
The commission cost more than 200 million pounds ($287 million) and has run six years past its original planned publication date.
