Bloody Sunday: Politicians "using past for political advantage in present"
Brendan Cole interviews Anthony McIntyre
VOICE OF RUSSIA
3 March 2014
A convicted IRA murderer has said it would be wrong to prosecute paratroopers involved in the Bloody Sunday shootings, insisting it is time to draw a line in the sand. We spoke to Dr Anthony McIntyre, who was convicted of the 1976 shooting of a loyalist in Belfast. He says there are no grounds for legally pursuing the soldiers involved in the 1972 massacre of 14 unarmed civilians in Derry.
He told VoR he takes this line not because he has any sympathy with the paratroopers but because he believes it's the only way to go.
He says, "I am also fearful that any attempts to prosecute British soldiers for Bloody Sunday will result in no British soldiers being convicted of murder - the best would be manslaughter - and then the British government would proclaim throughout the world 'British not guilty of murder on Bloody Sunday'.
"I think the world assumes that the British were guilty of a terrible atrocity, a war cime on Bloody Sunday."
Brendan Cole interviews Anthony McIntyre
VOICE OF RUSSIA
3 March 2014
He told VoR he takes this line not because he has any sympathy with the paratroopers but because he believes it's the only way to go.
He says, "I am also fearful that any attempts to prosecute British soldiers for Bloody Sunday will result in no British soldiers being convicted of murder - the best would be manslaughter - and then the British government would proclaim throughout the world 'British not guilty of murder on Bloody Sunday'.
"I think the world assumes that the British were guilty of a terrible atrocity, a war cime on Bloody Sunday."
