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 Bloody Sunday (1972) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the immediate aftermath of Bloody Sunday, the British government under Prime Minister Edward Heath established a commission of inquiry under the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery.
Graffiti in Belfast prior to Bloody Sunday famously stated that IRA stood for I Ran Away.
British opposition leader Harold Wilson reiterated his belief that a United Ireland was the only possible solution to Ulster's Troubles.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: N. Ireland Special Report
With the passing of the Act of Union in 1800, a law that joined England and Ireland as one, the island became officially governed by London.
Violence escalated as the Irish Repubican Army, led by Michael Collins, fought Britain in a bloody war for independence – one that ended with the partitioning of the northern and southern parts of the island by the Government of Ireland Act in 1920.
Catholics in Ireland suffered greatly in the subsequent period of British occupation, enduring laws that prevented them from bearing arms, holding public office and restricting their rights to an education.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/nireland/overview.htm

  
 CNN Specials - Northern Ireland
The Government of Ireland Act of 1920 recognised this de facto religious division by splitting the country into two separate political units, a predominantly Catholic south and a predominantly Protestant north.
Most of Northern Ireland's minority Catholic population, mistrustful of the Protestant majority, would prefer to belong to a single, united Ireland.
As British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a 1999 speech to the House of Commons: "I accept that this is often and has to be an imperfect process and an imperfect peace, but it is better than no process and no peace at all."
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/n.ireland/overview.html

  
 Reviews in History:
For the bereaved relatives of the killed and the relatives of the injured, the hope is that the truth will, at long last, enable justice to be done: justice to the civilians whose reputations were tarnished by the Widgery tribunal and, possibly, justice to those responsible for the killings and woundings on that terrible day.
As he eloquently puts it, 'Resolution of the Bloody Sunday issue will not be sufficient in itself to convince nationalists that they will secure justice and equality of treatment and respect in Northern Ireland.
Bloody Sunday and the Rule of Law in Northern Ireland
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/griffinBrian.html

  
 Inquiry into "Bloody Sunday" opens in Northern Ireland
In January, therefore, on the eve of the twenty-sixth anniversary of the killings, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced an independent judicial inquiry, to be headed by the British Law Lord, Lord Saville of Newdigate, and two judges from Commonwealth countries.
Just three years after the Labour government had sent the British army to Northern Ireland in 1969, the shootings blew apart claims that the military were in the province to defend the Catholic minority.
On January 30 1972, British soldiers from the 1st Parachute Regiment opened fire on a civil rights march in Londonderry (Derry) in Northern Ireland.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/ire-a07.shtml

  
 Ethnopolitical Map of Europe
The creation of Northern Ireland was the result of the settlement of the Anglo-Irish War (or the War of Independence) from 1919 to 1921, through the Government of Ireland Act and the subsequent Anglo-Irish Treaty, which was signed on 6 December 1921.
In 1967, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) was formed to demand a number of reforms one of which was 'one man, one vote', that is, a universal franchise for local government elections.
Although David Trimble, the now First Minister of Northern Ireland and current leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), described the Stormont period (1921-1972) as a "cold house for Catholics", the extent of discrimination is disputed.
http://www.ecmi.de/emap/noirl_backA.html

  
 CAIN: Events: Bloody Sunday - Chronology
As he was unable to regain the confidence of the Unionist party Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, resigned to be replaced later by James Chichester-Clark.
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) march against internment was meant to start at 2.00pm from the Creggan.
This is a draft (v1) of some of the main events which took place in the lead up to, and in the wake of, 'Bloody Sunday', 30 January 1972.
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/bsunday/chron.htm

  
 TIME Europe NORTHERN IRELAND TRAIL
To demonstrate Ireland's sense of solidarity with the Catholics in the North, five members of Lynch's Cabinet, as well as mayors of nine Eire cities, attended the mass funeral in Londonderry for the 13 victims of Bloody Sunday.
Appeals to call off the march came from the Prime Ministers of Britain and Ulster and the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, William Cardinal Conway, but all went unheeded.
It is seen as acting in support of a discredited and corrupt Unionist government." (The Unionist Party favors continued ties with Britain.) And he added, "I tell the Home Secretary that the marches will continue.
http://www.time.com/time/europe/nitrail/ni720214.html

  
 Bloody Sunday Trust- How you can help the Trust.
This led to the formation of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association on the 1st February 1967.
Relatives, wounded and their supporters c0me together to establish the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign.
Background to Civil Rights march which led to the murder of 14 innocent men.
http://www.bloodysundaytrust.org/edubackground.htm

  
 Time for Kids Magazines
Ireland's Catholics were treated badly by the newcomers, who passed strict anti-Catholic laws.
The Catholics, who are a large minority, mostly favor rejoining the rest of Ireland to become one country, free of British rule.
Now it is up to Ireland's voters to accept or reject the plan.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,89708,00.htm

  
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She returned to lead her people in a commemoration of that first ever non-violent demonstration for civil rights in the partitioned six county state of Northern Ireland.
The British parliament established, financed and armed the new six county state, and then abandoned all responsibility for the behaviors of the 'Broederbond' of Orange-Unionist politicians and civil servants who were left in control.
It is time for the British government to end its hypocrisy: it is time to cease defending with the lives of British teenagers a system of economic domination and apartheid which has poisoned the lives and happiness of generations of Catholic and Protestant Irish people and British justice.
http://www.etext.org/Politics/INAC/job.discrimination

  
 Patrick Hillery
Some senior politicians blamed Britain's MI5 or MI6, suspecting that the story was intended to embarrass Ireland during the papal visit, as revenge for the assassination by the Irish Republican ArmyIRA of Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Queen Elizabeth II of the United KingdomQueen Elizabeth II's husband's uncle) in Ireland in August 1979.
Though not himself political (he worked as a doctor and County Coroner) he agreed under pressure from Clare's senior Fianna Fáil TD (parliament)TD, party leader and former Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera, to become his running mate in the Irish General Election, 19511951 General Election.
A Taoiseach is chosen by a vote of Dáil Éireann and only after that appointed by the President.
http://www.infothis.com/find/Patrick_Hillery

  
 Guardian Unlimited Special reports Special report: Bloody Sunday
February 8 2002: Decision by Bloody Sunday inquiry to grant former and serving police officers the right to testify from behind screens causes fury amongst relatives of dead.
January 20: A republican from Derry yesterday became the first person to be jailed for contempt of the Bloody Sunday inquiry.
January 19 2003: Michael Mansfield QC has made his name fighting cases no one else would touch, but acting for the Bloody Sunday families may be his last day in the spotlight, he says.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bloodysunday

  
 frontline: the ira & sinn fein: chronology PBS
Another IRA ceasefire is established and, for the first time since Ireland was divided in 1922, the Irish Free State, Ulster (British Province) and Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, sit down to formal negotiations.
Prime Minister Tony Blair announces a new judicial inquiry into the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings in Northern Ireland.
The British government ends internment, declaring those who are guilty of crimes will be charged, arrested, and tried with a jury.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/etc/cron.html

  
 Amazon.com: DVD: Bloody Sunday (2002)
On the 30th of January 1972, a civil rights peace march was held in Derry, Northern Ireland.
Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) is, ironically, a Protestant Member of Parliament, leading a peaceful but tensely expectant civil rights march through the Catholic "bogside" of the city of Derry, in protest of the British practice of internment without trial.
This was a tragedy that struck a major blow to the Civil Rights movement, and to Ireland and Britain as well.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008DDHZ?v=glance

  
 Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the)
The report of an independent review of police complaints procedures in Northern Ireland, published in January, recommended the appointment of a Police Ombudsman to investigate complaints using a staff of independent investigators.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers visited the UK in October to investigate the effects of emergency legislation on lawyers' ability to practise in Northern Ireland, including complaints about police intimidation of lawyers.
Amnesty International sent observers to court hearings in connection with the deaths in custody of Shiji Lapite and Richard O'Brien and to the inquests of Ibrahima Sey and Alex Patterson, killed by undercover soldiers in Northern Ireland in 1990.
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/eur45.htm

  
 UK State Sponsored Terrorism - The Northern Ireland Conflict
One of Belfast's senior loyalist paramilitaries was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of the solicitor Pat Finucane.
The British state has been conspiring to murder its own citizens in Northern Ireland.
Another former government minister declared yesterday that he had "no idea" that British intelligence agents had colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/ireland/nireland.htm

  
 BBC News NORTHERN IRELAND Bloody Sunday leader finds faith in film
Mr Cooper was one of the major figures of the 1960s civil rights movement and a founder member of the nationalist SDLP - a political stance that led many of his own Protestant community to brand him a traitor.
Mr Cooper's rise to prominence was helped because he turned his back on the Protestant/Unionist politics of his own community.
For years Catholic schools have done project work on Bloody Sunday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net/1/low/northern_ireland/1791090.stm

  
 Martin McGuinness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was re-elected to the Westminster Parliament in 2001, but along with the rest of his party has refused to take his seat, because it would mean swearing an oath of alliegance to the Queen.
After his release, and another conviction in Ireland - this time for being a member of the PIRA, he became increasingly prominent in Sinn Féin, the political wing of the IRA.
He is also a member of the currently-suspended Northern Ireland Assembly, and served as Education Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive.
http://www.eastcleveland.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Martin_McGuinness

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Bloody Sunday (Ireland)
However in carrying into practice even this limiting decision the Lord Chief Justice actually confined his examination of eye-witness statements collected and submitted by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association to 10 out of 700 such statements, selected for him by his staff.
The controversy over the shooting was intensified by the manner in which Lord Chief Justice Widgery carried out his inquiry in the aftermath of the affair.
Garret FitzGerald, Ph.D. Former Prime Minister of Ireland.
http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_781561891/Bloody_Sunday_(Ireland).html

  
 Northern Ireland: Sunday — Bloody Sunday
The Widgery Inquiry, which was held a few weeks later, judged that the soldiers had acted within the law and seemed to cast doubt on the evidence of witnesses who testified that the dead marchers were unarmed with guns or any other lethal weaponry.
It depicted the behind-the-scenes of the organising of the march with its objectives centred on the right to votes in local government elections and as a protest against internment without trial, mainly of Nationalists detained under the Special Powers Act.
I didn’t hear any Unionist politician complaining about interference from the Republic in Northern Ireland’s affairs or asking for the extradition of the person convicted to be tried in a Northern court.
http://ballinagree.freeservers.com/sunday.html

  
 BBC News NORTHERN IRELAND Bloody Sunday gun claims anger lawyer
Bloody Sunday march in gay row (22 Jan 00
More than 10,000 people, including Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, attended the march which was addressed by the Health Minister, Bairbre de Brun.
Mr McCartney is acting for a number of families whose relatives were killed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net/1/low/northern_ireland/625835.stm

  
 CBSNews.com
On the eve of U.S. President Clinton's first trip to Northern Ireland, British and Irish governments appoint former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell to resolve IRA disarmament controversy.
Inspired by Sands' victory, IRA's allied Sinn Fein party runs for first time in Northern Ireland election and wins 10 percent of the vote
British and Irish governments, Protestants and moderate Catholic groups agree to new power-sharing Executive for Northern Ireland.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/northernireland/timeline_modern.html

  
 ILHR - International League for Human Rights
Last year, British Prime Minister Tony Blair decided to re-open the government's inquiry into the 1972 events, and Lord Saville was appointed to head the tribunal, which opened in Londonderry on April 3 and will begin hearing testimony in the fall of 1998.
Sam Dash, then as now Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Director of the Institute of Criminal law and Procedure, has had a distinguished career in assisting inquiries into official actions.
This finding sharply contrasted with Lord Widgery's exhoneration of the paratroopers.
http://www.ilhr.org/news/bs5_20pr.html

  
 CNN.com - Files reveal '72 NI expulsion plan - Jan. 1, 2003
The scheme, which was put before then-Prime Minister Edward Heath, would have created a Protestant-only Northern Ireland.
The files reveal that the then-foreign secretary and former prime minister Sir Alec Douglas Home emerged as a surprise advocate of a united Ireland.
Partition, however, was not the only solution to the problems of Northern Ireland being discussed by the British government during 1972.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/01/01/ireland.1972

  
 BBC - History - The Troubles
This section provides an historical backdrop to the 1921 partition settlement that led to 50 years of Unionist rule in Northern Ireland.
This came to an end in 1972 when the British government imposed direct rule from London.
The Troubles refers to the period of violent conflict in Northern Ireland beginning with the Civil Rights marches in the late 1960s to the political resolution enshrined in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/troubles/index.shtml

  
 CNN Transcript - WorldView: Relatives of Bloody Sunday Victims Look For Answers From British Government - March 27, 2000
SONIA RUSELER, CNN ANCHOR: Britain's Northern Ireland secretary Monday urged the Irish Republican Army to make clear whether it intends to lay down its weapons.
MARGARET LOWRIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A long march to justice for families and friends of those who died in Northern Ireland's 1972 Bloody Sunday protests.
Twenty-eight years ago, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, a civil rights protest spun out of control.
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/27/wv.06.html

  
 Documents on Northern Ireland
Daniel O'Connell: Justice for Ireland, Feb 4, 1836
WARREN HOGE, "Landmark Settlement Offers Northern Ireland Hopes for Peace," New York Times, April 11, 1998
ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT 1985 between THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND and THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ireland.htm

  
 Bloody Sunday - January 30, 1972
On January 30, 1972, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) organized a march on Londonderry to protest against the British practice of internment; that is, the detainment of Irish activists without formal charges or court hearings.
The British forces set out to arrest the protesters, who were already breaching a Northern Ireland-wide prohibition against processions that had passed the previous August.
Although the NICRA planned a peaceful demonstration, British security forces got wind of an Irish Republican Army (IRA) plan to take over the march and turn it into a riot.
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~sschreib/autumn_02/introductions/bloody_sunday.html

  
 Find in a Library: Bloody Sunday, 1972 : Lord Widgery's report of events in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on 30 ...
Find in a Library: Bloody Sunday, 1972 : Lord Widgery's report of events in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972.
Bloody Sunday, 1972 : Lord Widgery's report of events in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972.
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http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/7e6249e881426605a19afeb4da09e526.html

  
 'Bloody Sunday' Jan 30, 1972
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march against internment was meant to start at
Bloody Sunday' refers to Sunday Jan 30, 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland when 13 civilians were shot dead and a further 13 injured during a civil rights march protesting against internment.
Jackie Duddy, one of seven teenagers killed on Bloody Sunday, tended by Father Edward Daly and a member of the Knights of Malta first aid group.
http://library.thinkquest.org/18666/history/sunday.htm

  
 Bloody Sunday
On 30th January 1972, 13 Catholics were killed when soldiers of a British paratroop regiment opened fire during a civil rights march in Londonderry.
Its impact led to a resurgence of violent opposition to the British presence in Northern Ireland.
Although the details of what took place that day remain controversial, many of the basic facts are not disputed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/northern_ireland/2000/bloody_sunday/map/default.stm

  
 CNN - Catholics mark N. Ireland's 'Bloody Sunday' - Feb. 2, 1997
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Relatives of 14 Catholic demonstrators killed 25 years ago by British soldiers led thousands of Catholics through Londonderry Sunday to commemorate the event that became known as "Bloody Sunday."
The Irish government and many of Northern Ireland's Catholics, both supporters and opponents of the IRA, dispute those findings.
Martin McGuinness, a leader of the IRA's political wing Sinn Fein, called for an independent investigation of the tragedy.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9702/02/irish

  
 CNN - Catholics mark 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary, demand new probe - Jan. 30, 1997
Londonderry's moderate Catholic member of British Parliament, John Hume, pressed British Prime Minister John Major to reopen the investigation.
In Belfast, lawyers for the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign, an activist group, filed papers in the High Court demanding a new inquiry.
For years, the killings helped galvanize the Irish Republican Army's anti-British insurgency.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9701/30/bloody.sunday

  
 KET - The Road to Bloody Sunday: How the Troubles in Northern Ireland Began -
Featured segments include the rise of the Catholic civil rights movement and the outbreaks of violence that followed; the return of British troops and the IRA; and the culmination of "Bloody Sunday," the fall of the Northern Irish government.
Eyewitness accounts explore the tumultuous origins of a civil war that has lasted nearly 30 years.
Episode description: Chronicles the Catholic-vs.-Protestant unrest in Northern Ireland, focusing on four turbulent years from 1968 to 1972.
http://www.ket.org/cgi-plex/watch/episode.pl?nola=ROBS++000000

  
 National Catholic Reporter: New evidence, inquiry for Bloody Sunday - demonstrations on the anniversary of the massacre ...
Marchers were led by the victims' families and relatives, who held white crosses, each engraved with the names of the 13 Catholics who died when British soldiers opened fire on the 20,000-strong civil rights march Jan. 30, 1972.
Linda Roddy, 39, was at her aunt's home in 1972 when news came that her brother, William Nash, 19, had been killed and her father, Alexander, had been injured.
Retired Bishop Edward K. Daly of Derry, Northern Ireland, and his successor, Bishop Seamus Hegarty, praised the move for a fresh inquiry into the killings.
http://findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1141/n15_v34/20324597/p1/article.jhtml

  
 The shadow of Bloody Sunday Inside Europe Deutsche Welle 25.11.2004
In 1998, British Prime Minister Tony Blair set up an inquiry into the incident after the original investigation exonerated the paratroopers responsible for the killings.
The 1972 killing of 13 unarmed Catholic civilians by paratroopers was one of the most traumatic incidents of the province’s history.
It was almost 32 years ago, but Bloody Sunday has remained an unhealed wound in Northern Ireland.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/episode/0,1569,1407548,00.html

  
 1972 in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1971 in Ireland, other events of 1972, 1973 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.
January 30 - Bloody Sunday: 13 unarmed civilians are shot dead in Derry as British paratroopers open fire on a banned civil rights march.
December 13 - President de Valera signs documents covering Ireland's entry into the EEC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_in_Ireland

  
 Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (Ireland 1920), Ireland: November 21, 1920.
Bloody Sunday (Northern Ireland 1972), Northern Ireland: January 30, 1972.
Bromberg Bloody Sunday, said to have taken place on September 3 1939 in territory referred to as the Polish Corridor.
http://www.ukpedia.com/b/bloody-sunday.html

  
 CNN.com - Silence for Bloody Sunday - January 30, 2002
The deaths were a defining moment in 30 years of the troubles in Northern Ireland.
Dr Reid, speaking in Belfast, said his thoughts were with the families of those who died on Bloody Sunday.
Thirteen Catholics were shot dead by troops on Sunday, January 30, 1972, Derry, Northern Ireland.
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/30/nireland.sunday

  
 February 2004
Meanwhile, Prime Minister of IndiaIndian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee tries to gain Muslim votes for his Bharatiya Janata Party/ with the prospect of peace with Pakistan.
The White House rebuts United States Democratic PartyDemocrats' accusations that George W. BushBush shirked his military responsibilities, releasing pay records for the President's United States National GuardNational Guard service between May 1972 and May 1973/.
Russian federal prosecutors close a murder investigation, one hour after it had been opened by Moscow's prosecutor office, in the case of missing presidential candidate, Ivan Rybkin.
http://www.infothis.com/find/February_2004

  
 frontline: the ira & sinn fein: special reports: getting the inside story PBS
That fateful date became known as "Bloody Sunday," the day when British paratroopers shot dead thirteen unarmed Catholics during a peaceful civil rights demonstration in Derry.
Republicans have now put the attainment of a united Ireland on the back burner.
A settlement is possible, if unionists are prepared to make concessions as the Republican Movement seems prepared to do.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/reports/inside.html

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Bloody Sunday: Massacre in Northern Ireland : The Eyewitness Accounts
This book recounts the massacre of Bloody Sunday; January 30, 1972, in Derry City and its subsequent official cover-up by Lord Widgery.
Bloody Sunday was the third deadliest British terrorist atrocity in Ireland since 1969.
Mullan--an eyewitness at Bloody Sunday, now a civil rights worker in Northern Ireland-here examines onsite reports of more than 100 citizens and members of the British army about what happened.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570981590?v=glance

  
 BBC News UK Thorough Bloody Sunday Inquiry promised
During the launch of his investigation on Friday, Lord Saville underlined the impartiality of his panel from any government agenda and its determination to find out what happened.
Lord Saville outlined the expected procedure of the interviews and hearings that will look into the incident of January 30, 1972, when 14 unarmed Catholic civilians were shot dead by British soldiers in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry.
He found that the soldiers had been shot at first and that the people killed had been marching illegally.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/northern_ireland/latest_news/newsid_73000/73329.stm

  
 Author of "Eyewitness Bloody Sunday" to discuss violence in Northern Ireland
Mullan is the author of "Eyewitness Bloody Sunday," a book published on the 25th anniversary of the January 30, 1972, killings of 14 Irish Catholics by British soldiers during a civil rights march in the city of Derry.
Mullan also is the author of "The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings." His talk and appearance are sponsored by the Irish Law Society, the Keough Institute for Irish Studies and the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore.
Mullan, who as a 15-year-old witnessed Bloody Sunday firsthand, provided his own account of the day as well as research that has led to a new official inquiry into the killings.
http://www.nd.edu/cgi-bin/news.cgi?preview=NO&article=200103021522

  
 RTE News - Derry marks Bloody Sunday 30th anniversary
The civil rights march itself will be re-enacted on Sunday.
The Bogside fell silent as relatives of the dead, survivors and others who had taken part in the march gathered for the special commemoration.
The minute's silence was observed at the precise moment in 1972 when British paratroopers fired on a civil rights march, killing thirteen people.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2002/0130/bloodysunday.html

  
 warriorsworld.net Forums: US Troops Fire On & Kill 15 Iraqi Demonstrators - Shades of "Bloody Sunday" in Northern ...
Today's massacre in Iraq (Fallujah) is incredibly similar to the infamous "Bloody Sunday" massacre in Northern Ireland (June 30, 1972), in which the British Army opened fire on peaceful demonstrators marching for Catholic civil rights, killing 13 and wounding 13 others.
"Bloody Sunday" led to the re-vitalization or a previously moribund IRA, which over then next 25 years perpetrated hundreds of bombings & other terrorist acts against the British.
The incident was made worse when an official government inquiry conducted by Lord Widgery whitewashed the incident & absolved the British troops from blame, finding (against all the independent evidence) that the soldiers were only returning fire.
http://forums.warriorsworld.net/other/msgs/6802.phtml

  
 Breaking down the border
In March last year, the British government opened a new inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday to try to establish once and for all the role of British troops in the massacre.
FOR YEARS LONDONDERRY, or Derry, as it is known by its predominantly Catholic population, was famous only for the devastating events of Bloody Sunday, when British troops opened fire on unarmed civil rights protesters and killed 13.
Now, though, Londonderry has risen like a phoenix from the ashes of its bloody past with the help of European Union grants aimed at cementing the peace after warring paramilitary groups agreed to a cease-fire in 1994.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/524932.asp?0sp=N2b2&cp1=1

  
 The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) : Bloody Sunday inquiry: Para a fantasy merchant - QC.(News) @ HighBeam ...
Sir Allan Green QC, representing several of the paratroopers, said that Soldier 027's 1975 memoirs of the events of January 30, 1972, in Londonderry, like his evidence, was "so un- reliable that it is worthless".
THE Bloody Sunday soldier who claims that paratroopers shot 13 unarmed civil rights marchers without jus- tification was described yesterday as a "fantasy merchant" who is cashing in on the tragedy.
The 1972 Widgery inquiry largely exonerated the paratroopers, finding that they had shot only in self-defence, believing there were IRA gunmen in the crowd.
http://static.highbeam.com/t/thenewsletterbelfastnorthernireland/october232002/bloodysundayinquiryparaafantasymerchantqcnews/index.html

  
 Catholic World News : Britain Hints At Apology For Northern Ireland "Bloody Sunday"
The IRA called a cease-fire in its guerilla war against British rule in July in order to have its political organization, Sinn Fein, participate in all-party peace talks on Northern Ireland's future.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (CWN) - Great Britain's Labor Party has hinted that the country may formally apologize for the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacre, according to newspaper reports.
Last June the Irish government gave Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam a file of new evidence about the killings, largely based on two television documentaries and a book containing eyewitness accounts of the January 30, 1972 slaying of 14 unarmed nationalists which launched a new era of troubles for the disputed region.
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=6021

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