The families of the Bloody Sunday dead say they will not grieve for a senior British soldier who was on the ground in Derry on the day of the massacre.
Thirteen people were killed when soldiers of the Parachute Regiment opened fire after a civil rights march in the city on 30 January. 1972.
Scores more were wounded.
One of them died later bringing the death toll of that day to 14.
Last night, the British Army announced that General Mike Jackson, who had been a captain in the regiment and in the city on the day of the shooting, had died aged 80.
He was a career soldier who spent 40 years in the British military and rose to become its head before retiring.
Tony Doherty of the Bloody Sunday Trust said he may have been a celebrated soldier in Britain, but his reputation in Derry was entirely different.
Mr Doherty, whose father Paddy was amongst those shot dead by soldiers, said the families believed General Jackson ought to have faced criminal charges for what had happened in the city.
"Mike Jackson's name will sit well in the annals of imperial injustice alongside Widgery, Thatcher and Churchill.
"There will be no mourning here."
Widgery is a reference to Lord Widgery, the judge who led the original1972 inquiry into the circumstances of Bloody Sunday, long since dismissed as a whitewash.
The families of those shot dead by soldiers in Ballymurphy also said they would not mourn General Jackson.
They said he had been the central figure within the British Army who had begun the narrative that those killed in west Belfast and in Derry were gunmen.
"He denied being involved in the Ballymurphy Massacre until our legal team presented the evidence in court that he was the 1 Para Captain who lied by giving interviews to the press that our loved ones were gun men.
"That lie stayed with the Ballymurphy Massacre victims for over 50 years until they were all declared entirely innocent by Justice Siobhan Keegan in May 2021.
"Jackson had the opportunity to accept his wrongdoing and apologise to families when he appeared at the inquest to give evidence but he didn't. Instead he deflected our loss, pain and suffering onto himself citing the loss of his comrades.
"There will be no more lies, he will be judged on his actions and the deaths he and his soldiers caused in our community."
The Saville Inquiry was established in 1998 to reinvestigate the killings. It found that the military had not been justified in opening fire and none of the dead had posed a threat when they were shot.
Many of the soldiers were found to have lied about their actions.
Saville also looked at the role of the then Captain Jackson. He had spoken to the troops after the incident and complied a list of supposed engagements.
This was relied on by the military in the immediate aftermath to justify opening fire. Families said it had been part of the military cover-up.
General Jackson was also on the ground when his regiment was involved in a spate of army shootings in Belfast in August 1971 which left ten people dead.
He gave evidence to the Ballymurphy Inquest where he denied there'd been a cover-up.
Relatives laughed with derision as he gave parts of his evidence.
He accepted that he may have given press briefings at the time of the shootings that talked about IRA gunmen being hit.
The Ballymurphy Inquest found that all the dead were entirely innocent. The victims included a priest and a mother of eight.
