At Aberfan, I saw fathers digging for their missing children. And the lessons society should have learned, it hasn’t | John Humphrys
We still don’t know how to get justice for ordinary people Aberfan taught us a lot.
The Guardian reports: We still don’t know how to get justice for ordinary people Aberfan taught us a lot.
Each of those 144 deaths was entirely avoidable, but nobody was held to account. Mostly, of course, that those in power cannot be trusted.
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