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The miners’ strike and the horror of injustice
Halloween for the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign marks a grim anniversary – five years since Amber Rudd ruled out an inquiry into the brutal events of June 18 1984. But campaigners have no intention of giving up the fight, says KATE FLANNERY
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It was on October 31 2016 that Tory home secretary Amber Rudd made the shock announcement in Parliament that there would not be any kind of inquiry into the police riot at Orgreave on June 18 1984 during the 1984-5 miners’ strike.
Miners who had been assaulted by the police and arrested during the strike, children of miners, supporters and activists involved in the strike watched in horror from the House of Commons public gallery as this statement was made.
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