News: Aberfan Disaster

A Welsh GP at the scene of landslides in Uganda that have killed an estimated 350 people said the parallels with the Aberfan disaster are "striking".Eyewitnesses claim more than 100 school pupils sheltering in a small building, died when it was engulfed by the mud.

In 1969 Harold Wilson’s Labour Government facilitated the theft of £150,000 from the Aberfan Disaster Fund concealing the evidence using their Thirty Year Rule; in 1967 Tony Blair’s regime returned the £150,000 taken from the fund – even though it was worth over £2 million at 1997 values.

THE ABERFAN DISASTER