“Prime Minister David Cameron’s brave statement clearing the names of the Bloody Sunday massacre victims is an inspiring step in the process and a meaningful gesture on the shared path of peace and reconciliation. Mr. Cameron wasn’t even in Parliament when the investigation to which his statement referred began, much less 38 years ago, across the Irish Sea, when 13 Catholic protestors were killed on a wintry day in Derry. Thirty-eight years is too long a time, but finally we are moving forward: instead of building barricades we are breaking down misconceptions. Instead of firing guns we are searching for truth and justice. It’s very hard to move forward without the truth; and the truth is many other innocent people were killed. The same acknowledgement for those people and their relatives would go a long way towards bringing healing to the many others who have suffered in the North. Instead of ignoring history we are now paying our respects to the past, finding the means to bind our disparate selves together.”

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