What truth are they expecting to find? Is there some sort of conspiracy that I'm not aware of? Lots of people got crushed to death and the police/emergency services reacted poorly to the situation. What else is there to it? I thought all of the underlying issues and failures have already been exposed such as the safety certificate being out of date etc. etc.
Do people from Liverpool expect to uncover that Saddam Hussain was behind it or something?
Genuinely confused
There's much wider issues such as how far the police went in terms of covering up their mistakes, evidence destroyed, a special "propaganda" unit that was set up in the aftermath to obfuscate the true extent of their responsibility and failures. How much of this was done ad hoc by individuals and how much of it was systematic has never been brought to light.
You've to got to remember that each of 96 people who died were individuals, each with their own families who want to know exactly how and why each of their loved ones died.
The so called 3:15 cut off is of particular concern. It's an arbitrary time set by the initial inquest which states that all the victims were dead by 3:15pm, when as a matter of fact, many victims were alive @ 3:15 and were receiving medical treatment, whilst some died in hospital hours and days later. All of these individual victims and their deaths were totally ignored by the inquest, all of whom have their cause of death recorded as "traumatic asphyxia".
The Truth campaign is often maligned as an effort to find someone to blame. It's not that, it's an effort to find out what actually happened, not in a general sense, but for each and every one of the victims, some of the families of which, not only lost loved ones, but were robbed of the right to find out why and how.
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