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About 60% of the civilian casualties were Catholics, 30% of the civilians were Protestants, and the rest were from outside Northern Ireland. [ 300 ] About 257 of those killed were children under the age of seventeen, representing 7.2% of the total, [ 301 ] while 274 children under the age of eighteen were killed during the conflict.
According to the MOD, "in the absence of impartial witness evidence or forensic evidence to suggest a soldier had acted outside the rules of engagement, no crime was established." In May 2004, after an intervention from Amnesty International, her family submitted a formal claim for proper compensation, which as of 2004 is being assessed by the MOD.