Ballymurphy inquest finds 10 victims shot dead in 1971 were innocent
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An inquest has found that 10 victims killed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during a British army operation in 1971 were unarmed, innocent civilians who did not pose a threat to soldiers.
Nine of the dead were killed by soldiers using ‘unjustified force.’ However, the inquest could not conclude who killed the 10th victim, John McKerr, in Ballymurphy, a catholic neighborhood in Belfast.
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