JUSTICE FOR THE 96

It's a campaign supported by all Liverpool fans which is a campaign against English tabloid newspaper, The Sun and it's former editor, Kelvin McKenzie.

The Hillsborough disaster was a deadly human crush that occurred on April 15, 1989, at Hillsborough, a football stadium in Sheffield, England, resulting in the loss of 96 lives.

On the Wednesday following the disaster, Kelvin MacKenzie, then editor of The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, used the front page headline 'THE TRUTH', with three sub-headlines: 'Some fans picked pockets of victims'; 'Some fans urinated on the brave cops'; 'Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life'.

The story accompanying these headlines claimed that 'drunken Liverpool fans viciously attacked rescue workers as they tried to revive victims' and 'police officers, firemen and ambulance crew were punched, kicked and urinated upon'. A quote, attributed to an unnamed policeman, claimed that a dead girl had been abused and that Liverpool fans 'were openly urinating on us and the bodies of the dead'.

MacKenzie explained his reporting in 1993. Talking to a House of Commons National Heritage Select Committee he said "I regret Hillsborough. It was a fundamental mistake. The mistake was I believed what an MP said. It was a Tory MP. If he had not said it and the chief superintendent (David Duckenfield) had not agreed with it, we would not have gone with it." This explanation was not accepted by families of Hillsborough victims. Even fifteen years after the Hillsborough disaster, the circulation of The Sun in Liverpool is still believed to be only 12,000 copies a day where previously it was around 200,000.

On 30 November 2006, speaking to a business lunch, former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie repudiated the apology, saying that he only apologised because the newspaper's owner Rupert Murdoch ordered him to. He said "I was not sorry then and I'm not sorry now" for the paper's coverage.

louis' comments..

It's hard to find a place like Anfield and fans like us. I was surprised to see "THE TRUTH" at the KOP and i was also like 'what's going on?' Nevertheless, I only knew that the fans sang from the first minute to the last. Holding the red and white papers up for the first 6 minutes just tells me that the fans are determined to get some justice from the Hillsborough disaster.

Although I was only a few months old when the incident happened, i did see some of the videos about the incident and i could really see the stadium falling apart and fans are being crushed to death. It's really a sad day for all of us especially, those who lost their loved ones there.

I'm really sorry to see such an incident happened, but still, most importantly, we have to learn fomr our mistakes, be it, on or off the pitch.












You can't find fans like this in the world. It's only us.

you'll never walk alone..

cheers.

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