Bloody Sunday, Excerpts of tape broadcast on British television
Nationalist and Republican politicians in the North have called for the Saville Inquiry to investigate a tape recording which, it is claimed, could shed new light on the Bloody Sunday killings. The inquiry is re-examining the circumstances in which 14 civilians died after members of the Parachute Regiment opened fire during a civil rights march in January 1972.
Although there has been no official confirmation, it has been claimed that the recording carries the voices of British Army personnel allegedly saying that something had gone badly wrong at Rossville Flats and saying that those admitted to hospital after the shootings were the wrong people. Soldiers also described how an Army chaplain was distressed by the events and had complained to a senior officer.
John Kelly, whose 17-year-old brother Michael was among the victims, also called for the contents of the tape to be investigated. He said that the new evidence should be looked at very carefully, as it raised a number of disturbing questions. He urged anyone with any more such material to come forward.
