UK Government ‘Truly Sorry’ for 1971 Belfast Killings

UK Government ‘Truly Sorry’ for 1971 Belfast Killings
UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis leaves 10 Downing Street after the weekly cabinet meeting on April 27, 2021. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Alexander Zhang
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The British government is “truly sorry” for the events in west Belfast in 1971 in which 10 innocent people were killed, the UK’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis said on Thursday.

On Tuesday, a coroner found that the victims who were killed in Ballymurphy were “entirely innocent” and that the British soldiers’ use of lethal force was not justified.