The British government has spent up to
£400 million trying to find out the truth about Bloody Sunday in 1972, when 13
civilians were killed by the army, with reports that a number of soldiers may
face being charged with murder.
Less than three years later, in the
Birmingham pub bombings of November 1974, 21 people were killed by IRA bombers,
and 200 more seriously injured, but the authorities seem to be a good deal less
enthusiastic about getting to the bottom of what happened.
Inquests on those killed were
closed when six men were convicted of the mass murder, but they were the wrong
men, and they were released in 1991. No one has ever been found responsible, and now
some of the victims’ families are trying to get the inquests reopened, but West
Midlands police are apparently going to oppose them.
Last week the police interviewed a
Dublin solicitor who was the IRA’s ‘director of intelligence' at the time of the
bombings. He expressed his ‘shame and regret’ over them. But as you will see
from my earlier blog of November 21, 2014, there are some very odd things about
the police investigation. The authorities have decreed that an independent review of it
should remain secret for another 54 years, and a lot of evidence, including
another bomb that failed to explode, has gone missing.
My earlier blog:-
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