25th Anniversary Of Bloody Sunday And The Need To Re-Examine The Events Of That Day

EDM number 461 in 1996-97, proposed by John Hume on 29/01/1997.

That this House unequivocally and totally condemns all violence; recalls the then Prime Minister's, the Right honourable Member for Bexley, strictures to Lord Widgery, the Lord Chief Justice, on 1st February 1972 that 'it had to be remembered that we were in Northern Ireland fighting not only a military war but a propaganda war' and that the Lord Chief Justice said that 'the Tribunal would be asked to enquire into what happened, and not motives' and 'it would help if the inquiry could be restricted to what actually happened in those four minutes when men were shot and killed; this would enable the Tribunal to confine evidence to eye witnesses'; and calls upon the Government to reopen the inquiry to examine the Army's radio traffic recorded by Mr James de Wint-Porter at the time of the shootings, the medical evidence which suggests that some of the victims were shot from the walls of Derry rather than ground level and whilst recalling the Prime Minister's statement that the Bloody Sunday Dead were innocent, now calls upon the Prime Minister to repudiate all of the findings of the Widgery Tribunal and to recognise that having a full examination of all the relevant evidence including the Army's radio traffic, the fresh medical evidence and unexamined written statements of witnesses is the best way to exorcise the bitter memories of 25 years.

This motion has been signed by a total of 88 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
John Hume	29/01/1997	Foyle		Proposed
Brian H Donohoe	29/01/1997	Cunninghame South		Signed
Terry Davis	29/01/1997	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	29/01/1997	Leigh		Signed
Tom Cox	29/01/1997	Tooting		Signed
Jean Corston	29/01/1997	Bristol East		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	29/01/1997	Islington North		Signed
Harry Cohen	29/01/1997	Leyton		Signed
Ann Clwyd	29/01/1997	Cynon Valley		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	29/01/1997	Blyth Valley		Signed
James Callaghan	29/01/1997	Heywood & Middleton		Signed
Richard Burden	29/01/1997	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Bill Olner	29/01/1997	Nuneaton		Signed
Bill O'Brien	29/01/1997	Normanton		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	29/01/1997	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Andrew Faulds	29/01/1997	Warley East		Signed
Paul Flynn	29/01/1997	Newport West		Signed
James Wray	29/01/1997	Glasgow Provan		Signed
David Winnick	29/01/1997	Walsall North		Signed
Harold Walker	29/01/1997	Doncaster Central		Signed
Stephen Timms	29/01/1997	Newham North East		Signed
Roger Berry	29/01/1997	Kingswood		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	29/01/1997	St Helens South		Signed
Harry Barnes	29/01/1997	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Tony Banks	29/01/1997	Newham North West		Signed
Joe Ashton	29/01/1997	Bassetlaw		Signed
Irene Adams	29/01/1997	Paisley North		Signed
Norman Godman	29/01/1997	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Neil Gerrard	29/01/1997	Walthamstow		Signed
Maria Fyfe	29/01/1997	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Chris Mullin	29/01/1997	Sunderland South		Signed
Max Madden	29/01/1997	Bradford West		Signed
Keith Hill	29/01/1997	Streatham		Signed
Joseph Hendron	29/01/1997	Belfast West		Signed
Nigel Spearing	29/01/1997	Newham South		Signed
Dennis Skinner	29/01/1997	Bolsover		Signed
Brian Sedgemore	29/01/1997	Hackney South & Shoreditch		Signed
Terry Rooney	29/01/1997	Bradford North		Signed
Allan Rogers	29/01/1997	Rhondda		Signed
Stuart Randall	29/01/1997	Kingston upon Hull West		Signed
Ken Purchase	29/01/1997	Wolverhampton North East		Signed
Gordon Prentice	29/01/1997	Pendle		Signed
Robert Parry	29/01/1997	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Peter Pike	29/01/1997	Burnley		Signed
Colin Pickthall	29/01/1997	West Lancashire		Signed
David Hinchliffe	29/01/1997	Wakefield		Signed
John Home Robertson	29/01/1997	East Lothian		Signed
Kevin McNamara	29/01/1997	Kingston upon Hull North		Signed
Eddie McGrady	29/01/1997	South Down		Signed
John McAllion	29/01/1997	Dundee East		Signed
David Marshall	29/01/1997	Glasgow, Shettleston		Signed
Seamus Mallon	29/01/1997	Newry & Armagh		Signed
Alice Mahon	29/01/1997	Halifax		Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	29/01/1997	Thurrock		Signed
Eddie Loyden	29/01/1997	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Helen Jackson	29/01/1997	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Greville Janner	29/01/1997	Leicester West		Signed
Martyn Jones	29/01/1997	Clwyd South West		Signed
Gerald Kaufman	29/01/1997	Manchester, Gorton		Signed
Piara S Khabra	29/01/1997	Ealing, Southall		Signed
Terry Lewis	29/01/1997	Worsley		Signed
Ernie Ross	30/01/1997	Dundee West		Signed
Lynne Jones	30/01/1997	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
William McKelvey	30/01/1997	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Austin Mitchell	30/01/1997	Great Grimsby		Signed
Robert Wareing	30/01/1997	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed
John Gunnell	03/02/1997	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Ken Livingstone	03/02/1997	Brent East		Signed
Bill Michie	04/02/1997	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Dennis Turner	04/02/1997	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Dafydd Wigley	04/02/1997	Caernarfon		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	04/02/1997	Carmarthen		Signed
Mike Watson	05/02/1997	Glasgow Central		Signed
Joe Benton	05/02/1997	Bootle		Signed
Tommy Graham	05/02/1997	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Eric Clarke	05/02/1997	Midlothian		Signed
Alan Meale	05/02/1997	Mansfield		Signed
Jack Thompson	06/02/1997	Wansbeck		Signed
Mike Hall	06/02/1997	Warrington South		Signed
Denis MacShane	06/02/1997	Rotherham		Signed
John Heppell	06/02/1997	Nottingham East		Signed
Rachel Squire	10/02/1997	Dunfermline West		Signed
Audrey Wise	10/02/1997	Preston		Signed
Michael Connarty	11/02/1997	Falkirk East		Signed
John McWilliam	13/02/1997	Blaydon		Signed
Win Griffiths	13/02/1997	Bridgend		Signed
Margaret Ewing	27/02/1997	Moray		Signed
Andrew Welsh	05/03/1997	Angus East		Signed

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