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Karen Bradley’s defence of Bloody Sunday soldiers reveals a sense of ruling class impunity
Bloody Sunday was neither a mistake, nor a reaction to hooliganism and military or political fear of IRA activity, writes ROSA GILBERT
Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley

KAREN BRADLEY’S comments in defence of the Parachute Regiment soldiers responsible for Bloody Sunday were not just insensitive, they gave away the sense of impunity with which successive Westminster governments have ignored pleas for accountability, transparency and justice. 

But the fact that she drew attention to the idea that British forces — the military, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and their reserve forces — were not acting outside of the law is telling. 

As Frank Kitson, a senior military strategist in Northern Ireland, advised, the “law should be used as just another weapon in the government’s arsenal.” 

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