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housands of individuals will be part of a protest on Saturday to maintain up the stress for an inquiry into some of the violent clashes of the miners’ strike 39 years in the past.
Police confronted pickets outdoors a coking plant in Orgreave , South Yorkshire , on June 18 1984, in what the miners mentioned was a military-style operation to assault them.
The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) continues to name for an inquiry, claiming years of “lies and cover-ups” over the Conservative authorities’s function in policing of the year-long strike.
Former miner Kevin Horne, considered one of 95 miners arrested on the so-called “Battle of Orgreave”, mentioned: “We were only striking for the right to work.
“Pardons by the Scottish government for Scottish miners arrested during the miners’ strike, continuing anger in ex mining communities, papers from the time of the strike embargoed from public release until at least 2066 and growing numbers who support this campaign for truth and justice, show it is in the public interest to hold an Orgreave inquiry to have a full and authoritative review of what happened and why we were treated so badly”.
The OTJC has submitted proof to the Home Office about why it believes there must be an inquiry.
The marketing campaign’s secretary, Kate Flannery, mentioned: “Our powerful and detailed evidence seems to have been ignored by the Home Office and after giving the OTJC false hope – any kind of Orgreave inquiry was categorically ruled out.
“No-one in Government or the police has ever been held to account for what the government directed and the police did. The Tory Government’s attempts to sweep malicious and dangerous government and police conduct under the carpet will not make it go away. It is a serious threat to our already declining democracy.”
Another ex-miner, John Dunn, mentioned: “The Tories are clearly afraid that an Orgreave inquiry would further expose their scandals, corruption and attempts to stifle dissent.
“They have recently and very quickly organised a whole raft of draconian policing, anti-strike and anti-protest legislation to criminalise us and shut us up.”
The annual march and rally shall be held in Sheffield on Saturday.
