Londonderry 1972

The events in Londonderry on 30 January 1972 should not be viewed in isolation. According to the Inquiry, Martin McGuinness (now Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland) had an illegal submachine gun on the day when soldiers opened fire on the rioters and protestors.

McGuinness has constantly lied about his past - as has Gerry Adams. McGuinness was one of the leaders of the Provisional IRA in Londonderry at the time. A few days before this particular bloody Sunday, two policemen were murdered by his organisation. Thousands of other people were also affected by his violence. If you listen to the Nationalist/Republican controlled BBC Northern Ireland, you would think that nothing else happened in 1972 in Northern Ireland. McGuinness is rarely questioned about his murderous past and he hasn't served a day in prison for any of the murders his terrorist gang carried out. Why is there no justice for all of his victims?

Some Republicans claim that the British Army should have a higher standard. Yet they go on to say that the Provisional IRA terrorist group was also in fact an 'army'. So which is it? If the Provos call themselves an 'army', does it mean they are an 'army' without any standards?

Of course the truth is that they were just a gang of murdering terrorist thugs who have been indulged by successive Governments. If there was any real justice for victims in Northern Ireland, McGuinness would be in prison instead of being the Deputy First Minister of the Government.