The Five Demands

La relazione della Saville Inquiry sulla Bloody Sunday, vedrà la luce a dicembre

L’indagine venne istituita nel 1998 dall’allora primo ministro Tony Blair per riesaminare gli eventi del 30 gennaio 1972 (Bloody Sunday), quando 14 persone vennero massacrate dal regimento paracadutisti del British Army, per il solo fatto di sfilare in una marcia per i diritti civili.

Ecco in numeri dell’inchiesta:

• 5 anni di inchiesta
• 200 milioni di sterline investite, che la consacra come la più costosa della storia giuridica britannica
• Novembre 2000: viene ascoltato il primo testimone
• Gennaio 2005: viene ascoltato l’ultimo testimone
• 2500 testimonianze, di cui 922 fornite con prova diretta
• 160 faldoni di prove contenenti 20-30 milioni di parole
• 121 audiocassette
• 110 videocassette

Bloody Sunday report due at end of the year (Belfast Telegraph)
The Saville Inquiry report into the Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland is expected in December, it was revealed last night.
Over four years after hearings closed, authoritative sources close to the investigation confirmed the report should be presented to the Government by Christmas.
The inquiry was established in 1998 by the then prime minister Tony Blair to re-examine the events of January 30 1972, when British soldiers shot dead 14 people attending a civil rights march in Londonderry.
Costing nearly £200m, it was the most expensive inquiry in British legal history and lasted for five years, with the first witness heard in November 2000 and the last in January 2005.
The tribunal was chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, alongside two other judges from Australia and Canada.
There were 2,500 witness statements, of whom 922 were called to give direct evidence.
There were also 160 volumes of evidence, containing an estimated 20-30 million words, plus 121 audio tapes and 110 videotapes.