'Decades of deceit': Ballymurphy killings inquest opens in Belfast

Families have been fighting for 47 years to shine a light on British soldiers’ shooting of 10 unarmed peopleThe story sounds grimly familiar. It is the early years of the Troubles and there is ferment on the streets of Northern Ireland. Nationalists are marching and protesting.Paratroopers are deployed and open fire, volley after volley. People drop, bloodied and wounded, some dying. Others come to their aid and they too are shot. By the time the shooting stops, 10 people lie dead. Related