Posted on Jan 31, 2021

Bloody Sunday: What happened on Sunday 30 January 1972?

Maj Marty Hogan

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Bloody Sunday: What happened on Sunday 30 January 1972?

Thirteen people were killed and 15 people wounded after members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in the Bogside - a predominantly Catholic part of Londonderry - on Sunday 30 January 1972.

The day became known as Bloody Sunday - one of the darkest days of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

Victims' families waited 47 years to see if there would be prosecutions.

On Thursday, Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said there was enough evidence to prosecute one paratrooper - known only as Soldier F - for the murders of James Wray and William McKinney.

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Bloody Sunday: What happened on Sunday 30 January 1972?

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

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Lots of blood spilled over the years by this religious dispute.

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LTC Eugene Chu

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It was partly over religion. The Troubles also occurred due to ethnic tensions because of politics from Irish independence that occurred decades earlier and a history of previous unwanted British colonization going back centuries earlier

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THE TROUBLES WASN'T A RELIGIOUS WAR... BUT A RELIGIOUS WAR WAS HAPPENING ALONGSIDE

John Brewer, Professor of Post Conflict Studies at Queens University, said in a meeting the other week that the Northern Irish Troubles was not a religious war. You can’t argue with that. There is no question that theological issues were...

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