“BBC CENSORED FILM ON BRITISH ARMY KILLING CHILD” by Anne Cadwalladr in Declassified UK @uk_politics @Declassified_UK@mastodonapp.uk @DeclassifiedUK@independent-media.co.uk @BBC5Live@social.bbc @BBCRadio4@social.bbc @BBCNews@flipboard.com “The very highest levels of the British government secretly exerted pressure on the BBC to censor a film about the army killing an unarmed child in 1972. Official documents, recently discovered by the Pat Finucane Centre, also show the British Army was aware, shortly after the killing in Derry, that the boy had been killed at ‘point blank’ range by an immensely powerful machine-gun. However the Ministry of Defence falsely informed an inquest into his death that he was shot from 25 meters away by a soldier who thought the boy was armed” https://www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-censored-film-on-british-army-killing-child/ #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Britain #NorthernIreland #Troubles #Killing #Child #Finucane #Documents #Army #BritishArmy #Motorman #BBC #Panorama #Censorship #Derry