Saville Report

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The Saville Report was a British government inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday, a civil rights demonstration in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on January 30, 1972. During the demonstration, British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 unarmed civilians and injuring 14 others.

The Saville Report, released in 2010, concluded that the victims posed no threat and that the shootings were unjustified. It found that the first shot was fired by the British army and that none of the soldiers fired in response to attacks by those throwing projectiles. Prime Minister David Cameron apologized for the shootings, and financial compensation was offered to the victims' families. While a former soldier, Soldier F, was tried for murder, he was found not guilty on all counts in 2025 due to insufficient evidence connecting him to the fatal shots, though the court noted the soldiers had "totally lost all sense of military discipline."1

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In June 2010 the Saville Report, the final pronouncement of a government inquiry initiated by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998, concluded that none of the victims had posed any threat to the soldiers and that their shooting was without justification.
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In June 2010 the Saville Report, the final pronouncement of a government inquiry initiated by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998, concluded that none of the victims had posed any threat to the soldiers and that their shooting was without justification.
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