Firebrand loyalist Ian Paisley has admitted those murdered on Bloody Sunday were taking part in a “legal protest” and the British Government was right to apologise for the killings.
Ian Paisley.
In the two-part television interview “Paisley: Genesis to Revelation” – the first to be screened on BBC One Northern Ireland at 10.35pm this Monday – the former DUP leader welcomes British Prime Minister David Cameron’s apology for the 1972 massacre by British paratroopers.
In the interview – recorded before the former First Minister was admitted to Dundonald Hospital “for tests”- the 87-year-old says it had been “dangerous” for successive British Governments to cover up the Bloody Sunday killings, in which 13 unarmed protestors were shot dead.
Paisley says: “I felt it was a very dangerous thing and then the attempt to cover it for what it was not. The inquiry afterwards proved that some people had neither weapons, nor were they using weapons. They were just making a protest within the law.”
He says British Prime Minister David Cameron’s 2010 apology for Bloody Sunday was nothing for him to be embarrassed about.
He adds: “I was glad to hear him for the first time as a British leader telling the truth about it, saying what really did happen.”
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