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Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back review – the contempt they have faced to get justice is sickening

Source: Guardian Culture - Published: 20 Oct 2026 00:00

As we witness the endless indignities these grieving families have endured in the six decades since the mining disaster, it is impossible not to turn red with rage‘I’d like to have known her that bit longer, really. Those eight years went very, very quickly. I loved the child. I lost her. And that seemed to me to be the end of everything really, when she’d gone.”Ray Lee, now 90, lost his daughter Anne on 21 October 1966. It was the day her primary school, along with several surrounding houses, in Aberfan was engulfed by an estimated 100,000 tonnes of slurry from one of the colliery spoil tips that overshadowed the Welsh mining village. Anne was one of 116 children killed, alongside 28 adults. Continue reading...