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Il rapporto sul Bloody Sunday forse a marzo 2010

New delay to Bloody Sunday report

The report on the events of Bloody Sunday has been delayed again.

Bloody Sunday - 30 gennaio 1972 - 30 January 1972Tribunal chairman Lord Saville has confirmed he hopes to hand the report to the Northern Ireland Secretary at the end of March 2010.

It is understood the government will take some time to consider his findings before publishing them.

In a letter to legal teams, he said the report, which will run into thousands of pages, must be with publishers for some months before it can be finalised.

Lord Saville said he was “extremely disappointed” by this further delay.

Thirteen people died after paratroopers opened fire during a civil rights march in Londonderry in January 1972. Another person died later of their injuries some time later.

The Saville Inquiry was established in 1998 by then Prime Minister Tony Blair after a campaign by families of those killed and injured.

The Bloody Sunday inquiry is the longest and most expensive inquiry in British legal history.

The first witness was heard in November 2000 and the last in January 2005.

The tribunal received 2,500 statements from witnesses, with 922 of these called to give direct evidence.

There were also 160 volumes of evidence, containing an estimated 20-30 million words, plus 121 audio tapes and 110 video tapes.

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Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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