Former British soldiers to find out whether they face charges for Bloody Sunday shootings

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Fourteen people were killed and 15 wounded when paratroopers opened fire on civil rights march

But initial official attempts to suggest the dead had been armed with guns or nail bombs were dismissed in what became the longest-running and most expensive public inquiry in British history., which lasted 12 years and ran to millions of words, concluded in 2010 that the killings had been"unjustified and unjustifiable" – a finding which first opened up the possibility of criminal charges being made against the veterans involved.unreservedly apologised to the families of the victims.

 

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