British PM apologises to families of the Springhill Massacre

The British Prime Minister’s publicly apologised to the families of five people shot by the Army in Belfast in 1972.

In comes after an inquest in April found soldiers ‘overreacted to a perceived threat.’

The coroner also said the Army ‘lost control’ in a number of cases on the Springhill estate on July 9th 1972.

Keir Starmer spoke in the British Parliament today:

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