Ballymurphy: parade marks fifty-first anniversary

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Ballymurphy families mark 51st anniversary of killings. (This is a correction of an earlier tweet which we have now deleted.)

Families of those killed in Ballymurphy in west Belfast 51 years ago have marked the anniversary of their deaths.

Ten people, including a mother of eight and a Catholic priest, were shot over three days in August 1971.A relative of one of those killed said that ruling had made this year's memorial "so different".The 1971 killings immediately followed the introduction of internment - the arrest and detention of paramilitary suspects without trial.Speaking after Sunday's parade Eileen McKeown, the daughter of victim Joseph Corr, said this year's march was poignant.

"When we do this every year we are fighting for justice and for this year to be saying that they're innocent, that we proved our loved ones to be innocent just feels so different."The atmosphere is different," she told BBC News NI.

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