Miner: Miners Strike and Justice

miner: It also sends out a message to those who would still cling to medievalism, according to The Guardian. The pursuit to restore justice denied can never be time-barred unless you are a miner in the UK. More than 30 years after the miners strike in 1984-85, thousands are still waiting for justice for their treatment. That is why mature, enlightened and liberal democracies will sometimes reach out to groups who have been wronged in another age. Governments north and south of the border have resisted all entreaties because each knows that to accede would be to invite proper scrutiny of the vindictive and sinister behaviour of the police. Amber Rudd announcement that there would be no inquiry into police conduct at Orgreave during the strike was surprising only because she and her officials had previously dropped broad hints that one would be forthcoming. During the 12 months of the dispute, police forces were deployed in the manner of a private army by a government of the hard-right that used every means at its disposal to destroy the miners and their communities. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.