Guest writer Larry Hughes with a piece that addresses the issue of British massacres. Drawing on historical precedent he suggests there is little hope of the Ballymurphy relatives getting justice.
Much has been made in recent days and weeks of rights and freedom of speech and the right to public protest. Governments are good at attacking each other and avail of every opportunity to place other nations firmly under the international spotlight in order to cause political embarrassment. Should it be China on the Tibet issue, Russia over the Pussy Riot incident or America with Guantanamo Bay and rendition. With this in mind an event which occurred in Malaya in 1948 may be of particular interest to those Ballymurphy residents presently seeking an inquiry into the murder by British Government forces of their relatives between the 9th and 11th August 1971.
