国际英语新闻：British prime minister apologizes for Bloody Sunday Killings

Cameron said in a statement to the House of Commons that he was deeply patriotic and he did not want to believe anything bad about his country. "But the conclusions of this report are absolutely clear. There is no doubt. There is nothing equivocal. There are no ambiguities," he added.

"What happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable. It was wrong," the prime minister said.

"The government is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the armed forces. On behalf of the government, indeed, on behalf of the country, I am deeply sorry."

Cameron's announcement was greeted with cheers by a large crowd which had gathered in a square in Derry.

The report said that there were members of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA), a group engaged in an armed conflict with the British army to reunite Ireland, in the area at the time. However, their presence did not justify the level of response from the soldiers, and they had not fired the first shot.

On the actions of Martin McGuiness, now the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland and at the time a leading figure in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) (which had similar aims to OIRA), the Saville report said that he "was probably armed with a Thompson sub-machine gun" but said that there was no evidence he fired the weapon and that this provided no justification for the soldiers opening fire.