Government urged to ‘step up and apologise’ after coroner rules troops were responsible for nine of deaths

Calls are growing for the UK government to issue an apology to the families of 10 civilians killed in west Belfast in 1971.

Fresh inquests into the deaths involving the army concluded that the victims were “entirely innocent” and soldiers were responsible for nine of the fatal shootings.

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