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They contend the deaths in the Ballymurphy area were never thoroughly investigated.
One woman and nine men were killed in five separate incidents between August 9 and 11 involving the Army at a time of high tension following the controversial introduction of internment without trial.
(top row, from left) Joseph Corr, Danny Teggart, Eddie Doherty, Father Hugh Mullan, Frank Quinn, Paddy McCarthy, (bottom row, from left) Joan Connolly, John McKerr, Noel Philips, John Laverty and Joseph Murphy died in shootings in Ballymurphy in 1971 (PA)
Soldiers were greeted by disorder and violence as they moved into republican strongholds to arrest IRA suspects from the early hours of August 9 when the policy came into effect.
By Press Association 2021
An area of Ballymurphy where parish priest Father Hugh Mullan and teenager Frank Quinn were fatally wounded (Ballymurphy families/PA)
A mother of eight and a Catholic priest were among ten people fatally wounded in disputed shootings involving the army in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast between August 9-11 1971.
The scenes came at a chaotic time across Northern Ireland following the controversial decision to implement internment without trial in response to the start of the Troubles.
Findings following fresh inquests into the 10 deaths will be delivered by Coroner Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan on Tuesday.
A mural on a wall in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast where shooting of 10 civilians took place in 1971 (Liam McBurney/PA)
Findings will be published later following fresh inquests into the fatal shooting of 10 people in disputed circumstances involving the Army in west Belfast 50 years ago.
A mother of eight and a Catholic priest were among those who died in August 1971 in events which have become known locally as the Ballymurphy Massacre.
It came during a turbulent period following the controversial introduction of internment without trial in Northern Ireland at the start of the Troubles.
Violence erupted on August 9 when soldiers moved into republican strongholds to arrest IRA suspects.
Original inquests into the Ballymurphy deaths in 1972 returned open verdicts and the bereaved families subsequently pursued a long campaign for fresh probes to be held.
BBC News
By Will Leitch
image captionFamilies of those killed in have campaigned for justice
A inquest has found that 10 people who were shot over a three-day period in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, in 1971, were entirely innocent
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Coroner Mrs Justice Keegan said nine of the victims were shot by the Army, could not definitively say who shot the tenth.
The victims included a priest trying to help the wounded and a mother of eight.
Mrs Justice Keegan, who delivered her findings over the course of more than two hours, said the deaths took place during Northern Ireland s Troubles in a highly charged and difficult environment .