Campaigners press for an inquiry into policing at Battle of Orgreave during an anniversary rally.
The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign wants an inquiry into the events of 18 June 1984Campaigners have continued to press for an inquiry into one of the most violent clashes of the miners' strike at an event to mark its 39th anniversary.
Scores of miners were arrested at the so-called Battle of Orgreave in South Yorkshire in June 1984, but all charges were dropped. The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign renewed its calls for an inquiry at a march in Sheffield on Saturday.Police confronted pickets outside a coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in what the miners said was a military-style operation to attack them.A total of 95 people were charged with riot and violent disorders at Orgreave in 1984
Mr Horne, one of 95 miners arrested during the clashes, said: "Pardons by the Scottish government for Scottish miners arrested during the miners' strike, continuing anger in ex-mining communities, papers from the time of the strike embargoed from public release until at least 2066 and growing numbers who support this campaign for truth and justice, show it is in the public interest to hold an Orgreave inquiry to have a full and authoritative review of what happened and why we were...
The OTJC said it has submitted evidence to the Home Office about why it believes there should be an inquiry.
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