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Soldier F.
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Justice has been served.
IMO that case should have never been considered.
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Why did it take so long to serve it?
Why did so many people do everything they could to stop it?
Anyway - it is true that the prosecution could not prove that Soldier F killed anybody.
But before you go on about "justice being served", consider the words of the judge:
He said troops had "lost all sense of military discipline", as they shot unarmed civilians "in the back…as they were fleeing from them, on the streets of a British city".
Furthermore, the judge said he had no doubt "the soldiers who opened fire did so with the intention to kill" – and they "did not act in lawful self-defence".
I'm just wondering who and how many will be the people here with such defective reasoning that they will claim that because I quoted what the judge said I'm an IRA sympathiser.
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So do you think that British troops should be allowed to get away with murder?
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It was the right decision in the circumstances but not justice
Soldier F found not guilty of murder and attempted murder on Bloody Sunday
Thirteen people were shot dead and at least 15 others injured on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 at a civil rights demonstration in the Bogside area of Derry.
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Justice for who?It was the right decision in the circumstances but not justice
Soldier F found not guilty of murder and attempted murder on Bloody Sunday
Thirteen people were shot dead and at least 15 others injured on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 at a civil rights demonstration in the Bogside area of Derry.
It’s not justice for soldier F and his family having a court case hanging over him 53 years later.
It’s terrible for the families of those that died in Derry on that day, but let’s not forget, the soldiers were stationed in Ireland because of the IRA.
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It could have taken less time. But some people didn't want it to happen at all.
Indeed they were.
Does that mean that they should have been allowed to get away with murder?
That's a simple question, and it is just a question, not an allegation or pre-judgement.
Either you think British troops should be allowed to get away with murder, or you don't. Issues of whether a particular instance was murder, or not, are relevant to any investigation and trial, but not to answering that.
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Ulster.Northern Ireland
They are not synonymous.
That's rather strange logic...
Why should there be a time limit on justice for the death of an innocent person?
And the goal of the IRA was to reunite the island of Ireland and they considered the british to be occupiers...
So will you be trying to justify the actions of israeli soldiers as regards innocent civilians just because there have been various groups opposing israel's occupation?
And that's been going on for more than 53 years!
Genghis Khan better keep his head down.
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Couldn’t the evidence needed then was the weapon which fired the bullets that killed those people, which could’ve been tied to a specific soldier? That evidence should have been collected right there on Bloody Sunday.
I wonder why it wasn’t.
I wonder why it wasn’t.
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