The former MP and civil rights leader Bernadette McAliskey has claimed that the British government and military authorities conspired to murder innocent civilians in Derry on Bloody Sunday in 1972. Giving evidence at the Saville Inquiry, Mrs McAliskey said that justice would not be done at the Tribunal. She said that the proper forum for investigating the killings was the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
Ms McAliskey, whose name was Bernadette Devlin at the time, narrowly escaped the gunfire that claimed the lives of 13 men and youths on that day. Several witnesses have already described shots hitting the wall behind her as she stood on a platform addressing the crowd. She was addressing the big civil rights demonstration before Paratroopers moved in and opened fire. The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville, was established three years ago and has been sitting in public for the past 13 months.
