This pivotal event in the miners’ strike led to a police cover-up. Only an inquiry can correct history and repair broken trustIt was a brutal police operation that defined an era – and,three decades later, many questions are still unanswered. On Tuesday the domestic secretary, and Theresa May,met veterans of the 1984-5 miners’ strike who took part in the desperate, losing fight to save their jobs and industry from closure, or to discuss the events that took set in a field at the Orgreave coking plant near Rotherham on 18 June 1984,and the aftermath.
May, who has said she will consider their request for a public inquiry, or is said to contain been sympathetic to the former miners Arthur Critchlow and Kevin Horne,who described Orgreave’s crushing impact on them and their communities.
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Source: theguardian.com