6 May 1999 Edition
The Springhill massacre - Adams demands an inquiry
On a summer's day, similar to the Sunday 27 years ago on July 9 when British snippers opened fire without warning from Corry's timber yard and murdered five local people, including children and a priest, the Sinn Féin President and local West Belfast MP, Gerry Adams demanded a ``full independent public inquiry'' into the killings.
Adams added that such an inquiry ``would open up the can of worms that is British collusion''.
At the official opening on Tuesday morning of a remembrance garden to all the people killed in the area in the last 30 years but specifically to those five people killed in the Springhill massacre in 1972 after the introduction of internment, Adams said there was no way to bring back the dead and that no compensation would be enough but that the families ``want the truth.
``Unless everyone can share in the truth, and share in the future, the peace process is academic. There can be no equivocation, no section of the community has a monopoly on suffering.''
Following a minute's silence, a spokesperson for the Relatives for Justice announced that a public hearing into the murders will be held in Belfast on 2 August. Don Mullan, who was an integral part of the push for a new inquiry into Bloody Sunday said: ``This will lay the foundations for an independent public inquiry. It was Belfast's Bloody Sunday.''
Adams added that such an inquiry ``would open up the can of worms that is British collusion''.
At the official opening on Tuesday morning of a remembrance garden to all the people killed in the area in the last 30 years but specifically to those five people killed in the Springhill massacre in 1972 after the introduction of internment, Adams said there was no way to bring back the dead and that no compensation would be enough but that the families ``want the truth.
``Unless everyone can share in the truth, and share in the future, the peace process is academic. There can be no equivocation, no section of the community has a monopoly on suffering.''
Following a minute's silence, a spokesperson for the Relatives for Justice announced that a public hearing into the murders will be held in Belfast on 2 August. Don Mullan, who was an integral part of the push for a new inquiry into Bloody Sunday said: ``This will lay the foundations for an independent public inquiry. It was Belfast's Bloody Sunday.''