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Post by Admin on Jan 30, 2022 18:38:04 GMT
Hundreds gather to remember the Bloody Sunday victims
Hundreds of people have attended a commemoration event to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
Thirteen civil rights protesters were shot dead by British soldiers on January 30 1972 in Londonderry.
Another man shot by paratroopers on the day died four months later. While many consider him the 14th victim of Bloody Sunday, his death was formally attributed to an inoperable brain tumour.
As part of the commemorative event, the Irish premier Micheal Martin laid a wreath at the Bloody Sunday memorial.
Earlier, relatives of those killed and injured on Bloody Sunday took part in a remembrance walk and retraced the steps of the original march.
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Post by Admin on Jan 31, 2022 4:27:28 GMT
Five decades after British soldiers killed 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers on one of the defining days of the Northern Irish conflict, relatives are still searching for the justice they believe is needed for a scarred society to heal. Family and friends of the 13 Catholics who died in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972 -- and of a 14th who died later of his wounds -- gathered this week for a series of commemorations to mark the event that helped fuel three decades of bitter sectarian and political violence. While a judicial inquiry found in 2010 that the victims were innocent and had posed no threat to the military, the commemorations come just months after prosecutors announced that the only British soldier charged with murder will not face trial. Northern Ireland's 1998 peace process has been hailed around the world for its success in largely ending a conflict in which more than 3,000 people were killed. Irish nationalist militants seeking unification with the Republic of Ireland faced off against the British Army and loyalists determined to keep the province British.
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