The victims of the Ballymurphy massacre in west Belfast in 1971 Ballymurphy Massacre Committee/PA)Claims that a republican gunman or gunmen had been present in Moyard Flats have been in dispute. “I was on the roof of the school, it was still light although getting dark,” he told the inquest. “We were all given a copy of the Yellow Card,” he said. “We did not receive any instruction on the rules of engagement beyond the Yellow Card because the Yellow Card was our Bible. He said he did a four-hour shift in a sangar on the school along with one other soldier.

Source: Irish Examiner April 01, 2019 13:41 UTC