More than 5,000 people took part in a march in Derry yesterday to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the killings of 13 unarmed civilians in the Bogside on Bloody Sunday. The marchers, who followed the route of the original parade from the Creggan Estate down to the Bogside for a rally at Free Derry Corner, were led by relatives of the victims, each of who carried a cross bearing the name of their dead relative.
Speaking at the rally, Mr Michael McKinney, whose brother William was one of the victims, said the relatives did not need the Saville inquiry to tell them what happened in the Bogside on January 30th, 1972.
"But what we do need and what we will have is an accounting for the actions of the British state and the British army on our streets. The second Bloody Sunday inquiry, and the report it produces at its conclusion, will not be the history of Bloody Sunday," he said.