The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as the Saville Inquiry or the Saville Report after its chairman,
Lord Saville of Newdigate
Mark Oliver Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, (born 20 March 1936) is a British judge and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Early life
Saville was born on 20 March 1936 to Kenneth Vivian Saville and Olivia Sarah Fra ...
, was established in 1998 by British
Prime Minister
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Tony Blair
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after campaigns for a second inquiry by families of those killed and injured in
Derry
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on
Bloody Sunday during the peak of
The Troubles
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. It was published on 15 June 2010. The inquiry was set up to establish a definitive version of the events of Sunday 30 January 1972, superseding the tribunal set up under
Lord Widgery that had reported on 19 April 1972, 11 weeks after the events, and to resolve the accusations of a
whitewash
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that had surrounded it.
The inquiry took the form of a tribunal established under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921, and consisted of Lord Saville,