In August 2010 Bishop Treanor expressed his support for an international , independent inquiry into the 11 killings carried out by the parachute regiment in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in 1971 . Bishop Treanor was speaking at a press conference where previously undisclosed documents from church archives relating to the events were being made available for the first time . Bishop Treanor said : “ '' As with Bloody Sunday , the reputations of those who were killed were actively besmirched and the evidence of the available eyewitnesses was either ignored or actively discredited . Indeed the events in Ballymurphy on August 9th-11th , 1971 , would and perhaps should have been considered the necessary starting point for such an inquiry , '' ” he added
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Noel Treanor