Sinn Féin's Mr Martin McGuinness has said he is "sceptical and suspicious" about the Saville Inquiry's ability to discover the truth about Bloody Sunday.
Delivering the annual Bloody Sunday memorial lecture in the Derry yesterday, the Mid-Ulster MP and Northern Ireland Education Minister listed a series of obstacles facing the tribunal which was established by the British prime minister Mr Blair in 1998.
"Elements within the British military and political establishment are attempting to ensure that even if the Inquiry concludes that all of those murdered and wounded on Bloody Sunday were totally innocent civilians ... nothing will emerge to point the finger at those responsible for planning, authorising and executing the strategy adopted in Derry 29 years ago," he told an audience in the Calgach Centre.
He added: "After 29 years the British establishment is attempting to blame everyone, except of course their politicians and their generals.
"For the last 29 years they have blamed the civil rights movement, the people of Derry, the dead of Bloody Sunday.
"And now very late in the day, in an obvious act of desperation, they are trying to place the responsibility for Bloody Sunday on me."
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