DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
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Family members arrive for the inquest into holding photos of the victims of the Ballymurphy shooting, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday May 11, 2021
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LAST week saw the outcome of the inquests into the deaths of the victims of the Ballymurphy massacre.
The coroner found that all 10 of those shot dead between August 9 and 11 1971 — in the days following the introduction of internment without trial — were “entirely innocent of any wrongdoing.”
For 50 years the families knew the truth, but for half a century that truth was hidden from the British public.
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