Hi, There!
I wonder what happened to the Royal Army officers in charge of this operation.
That is the (dunno his rank) officer in charge of overseeing the operation at "Zero" (HQ), the Colonel of "Six-Five" and General Ford.
Reprimand, Reward or Hush-Up/Cover-Up?
Perhaps someone with deeper insight into the matter of "Bloody Sunday" could tell?
Thanx in advance!
Major-General Robert Ford, Commander Of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, was criticised in the Saville Report following the Bloody Sunday massacre but not apparently reprimanded in any way.
Detail can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ford_(British_Army_officer)
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/bloody-sunday-inquiry-to-rule-killings-unlawful-2217319.html
Nothing happened until 2010, but then the inquiry finally released their findings. This is the link to the article from the Irish Independent.
Sad, isn't it?
Hola, from Eire!x
very sad
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usual posting by someone in the USA I suspect who doesn't understand much about NI. Paramilitaries? That means non state 'military' forces - like the UDA, UVF, IRA. Does he mean paratroopers. Of course the whole point is that the govt didn't know that it was supposedly cold blooded murder. At the time they were hardly anyway going to undermine army morale by prosecuting a large number of one of the elite units (and to be frank you wouldn't have found many policemen in the RUC or elsewhere who would have pursued the case with vigour anyway - we were fighting a war against terrorists). Its taken 30 years to get some kind of result and a lot of people still disagree with Saville
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Umm, Royal Army? whats that? no such thing. There's the British Army, which is made from regiments from around the United Kingdon including Northern Ireland.
shareThe film says they were honored by the Queen. Maybe, even knighted. Commit and atrocity and get knighted as long as it's against the "taigs"....Not unlike Byron's poem quoted in Breaker Morant:
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbors;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and Rome,
And get knocked on his head for his labors.
To do good to mankind is the chivalrous plan,
And is always nobly requited;
Then battle for freedom wherever you can,
And, if not shot or hanged, you’ll get knighted.