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00:00 Colin, what are your thoughts today on the 40th anniversary?
00:04 It's just that we're all getting older and there's not as many people coming.
00:09 If you take my mother, who died four and a half years ago, even me.
00:13 Some of my siblings are now in their 70s.
00:16 So, that's even telling.
00:19 I didn't think I'd be standing here 40 years later.
00:23 I'm sort of approaching a pensioner myself.
00:26 But it is sad, but we have to do it.
00:30 So, it matters to you?
00:33 It's something that is of concern?
00:36 That the numbers of people appearing here are thinning as they pass away?
00:43 Yeah, well it is. It is concerning.
00:46 But then, it's a passage of time.
00:50 We're not going to be all here forever.
00:53 Someday I'm not going to be here.
00:56 Does it bother you then that it gives the appearance that the murders won't be as remembered as well in the future?
01:04 Does that bother you, potentially?
01:06 Well, I think most people will remember it.
01:09 But whether or not they want to come here is another thing.
01:13 It is a seldom new place to come.
01:17 48 years ago, that's where the gays were stood here and that's where they were shot.
01:22 They, well, they call them animals.
01:26 I know the inquest is still open, just about.
01:32 What's been your opinion of the inquest that went on now, actually, for 10 years?
01:37 It's been 10 years, effectively, since it's been running?
01:40 Well, I think the part of it was a farce.
01:43 Because if you can't even name dead IRA men, what's the point in having an inquest?
01:50 He sat out and he was going to tell us everything that happened.
01:56 But to me, there are certain things, obviously, like if he didn't tell the names of the dead, that's the very least he should have done.
02:04 The name of the dead suspects, you mean?
02:06 Yes. And it's not going to take away from any of their relatives that they still collapsed and were heroes from what they did here that night.
02:16 And that was the main reason why so many of the families walked away, that the coroner declined to name the dead suspects, isn't that right?
02:22 It was the main, yeah, it would have been the main reason.
02:25 He was tiptoeing around it, obviously, for their, you know, for their, he wouldn't have asked no secrecy or whatever, I don't know what it was.
02:37 There was something in the background.
02:39 What he said was that they were concerned that it could compromise national security by people or even the safety of those people associated with the dead suspects.
02:49 And relatives, yeah.
02:51 But as I said before, the relatives would be, they would treat themselves as heroes.
02:56 So, you know, up and around in their own circles, everybody knows you've done this.
03:01 What would be your hopes for the future with regards to the legacy of the King's Muslim Assembly?
03:06 All we can ask for is for the truth.
03:09 If we don't get the truth, I don't want new lies.
03:14 And what are your thoughts, the Irish government held a court hearing in secret to answer questions for the relatives.
03:24 Some of those questions would have been questions that your families would have been put down.
03:27 And then the report was released to the families, still engaged with the inquest.
03:31 But they were forbidden legally from sharing it with the media, so that report remains secret.
03:38 What are your thoughts on that?
03:40 There's another farce, only it's a more serious farce.
03:43 At least we can know that they're not telling us things.
03:46 Because we're in this court, over here in the UK, Northern Ireland.
03:51 But in the South, we won't even be allowed to enter it, to hear what's been said.
03:56 So it's a total farce.
03:58 I'm Glasley Colin.
04:01 What are your thoughts today about your brother, Kenneth?
04:07 He was, what was he, 24?
04:09 He'd have been 24, yeah.
04:11 So he wouldn't come on a pensioner.
04:13 Well, he would have been a pensioner, yes, he'd have been in his seventies as well.
04:16 How do you remember Kenneth?
04:18 Well, I was only 15, and my memory's just getting very...
04:21 Yes.
04:22 I can't remember it now.
04:23 Yeah.
04:24 But, yeah, he was somebody I'd looked up to.
04:26 My two brothers looked up to both of them.
04:28 But, yeah, I just wanted to be like him.
04:33 Right.
04:34 How much older was he then?
04:36 He'd have been nine years, I think.
04:37 Nine years.
04:38 Yeah.
04:39 Okay.
04:40 And, therefore, this verse, hopefully, will speak to you.
04:46 Psalm 34 and verse 18.
04:49 It says, "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,
04:54 and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."
04:59 Friends, I want to tell you, in times of sadness,
05:02 nigh, and even injustice,
05:05 we can look to the Lord.
05:07 We can look to the Lord and His Word for comfort.
05:11 Three thoughts I just want to leave with you.
05:13 First of all, the situation, his situation, in fact.
05:16 It says, "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart."
05:23 The situation is, he's near.
05:26 And I pray, and I know others would pray,
05:29 especially where the families are concerned,
05:32 that standing in there somewhere in the shadows of their grief
05:36 that still goes on 48 years later,
05:39 that standing in those shadows,
05:42 that they would find the comfort of the Lord Jesus Christ.
05:46 48 years is a long time.
05:50 But I guarantee you, each one of those families,
05:53 to each one of them, it's just like yesterday,
05:57 because it's still raw.
05:59 And I trust that in the shadows of that grief,
06:03 that they would find the sympathizing Jesus.
06:06 You see, that's his situation.
06:08 But then there's also his sympathy,
06:10 because it says, "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart."
06:15 He's nigh in our thoughts.
06:18 In Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 15,
06:21 it tells us that the Lord Jesus is touched
06:24 with the feeling of our infirmities.
06:27 In other words, he knows what we're going through.
06:30 And to the families and friends especially,
06:33 of those names that are behind me on this wall,
06:36 the Lord Jesus knows very well
06:39 what you have gone through,
06:41 and what you're still going through.
06:44 And we can also remind ourselves of what the Lord Jesus himself felt
06:49 at the grave of Lazarus, his friend.
06:52 It gives rise to the shortest verse of Scripture.
06:55 In John 11 and verse 35, it tells us that Jesus wept.
06:59 And friends, you can be assured of the sympathies of the Lord.
07:05 Then finally, there's not only his situation and his sympathy,
07:09 but there's also his salvation.
07:11 It says, "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,
07:15 and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."
07:20 Praise the Lord today. Jesus saves.
07:24 And he's the friend that sticketh closer than any brother.
07:29 I wonder today, do you know him as your Savior?
07:32 Because if he's your Savior, he's also your friend.
07:36 And he can draw very near at times like this,
07:39 and comfort as only he can.
07:42 I feel so very inadequate.
07:45 I'm sure our brother, the Reverend Patterson,
07:47 feels the same as ministers in times of grief.
07:50 We feel so inadequate.
07:52 And that's why we mention the Word,
07:54 because the Word of God gives us comfort.
07:57 And the comfort today is that if we come and ask him,
08:01 he will save us.
08:03 He will save us from our sins,
08:05 and he will be that friend that we need.
08:09 And I trust that that's something that you will do
08:13 if you don't know him as your Savior.
08:15 I trust that you'll come and be saved today.
08:19 I just want to read the names of those that have lost their lives,
08:24 and then there's some that we'll announce that are coming to lay,
08:27 he breathes, and flowers, and so forth.
08:30 John Bryans, Robert Chambers, Walter Chapman, Reginald Chapman,
08:40 Robert Freeburn, Joseph Leeman, John McConville, James McWhorter,
08:49 Robert Walker, and Kenneth Ward.
08:53 Let's just have a wee word of prayer, please.
08:56 Heavenly Father, we ask thee that thou wouldst draw near
08:59 to these families that are mentioned by name.
09:02 We pray that thou wouldst give that comfort that only thou canst give.
09:07 We pray for our land that thou wouldst give us justice for this atrocity.
09:12 And we ask thee, O God, to continue to bless us
09:15 as we remember those that have been so tragically taken from us.
09:20 Be with us now, for Jesus' sake. Amen.
09:25 May and Rachel--or Raquel, sorry. May and Raquel are going to come now
09:30 and lay flowers on behalf of the families.
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10:22 We're also going to ask Robert if he'll come now
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11:17 Would you observe three minutes' silence, please?
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