Bloody Sunday
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| Date | 30 January 1972 16:10 |
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| Location | Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
| Type | shooting |
| Deaths | 14 |
| Injured (non-fatal) | 15 |
| Description | A shooting of unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders by the British Army. |
| Perpetrators | British Army |
| Blamed on | British Army (mostly Parachute Regiment) |
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Bloody Sunday — sometimes called the Bogside Massacre — was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which twenty-six unarmed civil rights protesters or bystanders were shot by the British Army Parachute Regiment during a Civil Rights Association march. Thirteen men, seven of whom were teenagers, died immediately or soon after. Another man died four and a half months later from his injuries. Two protesters were injured when they were run down by army vehicles.
The Widgery Tribunal
Baron Widgery lead a purported investigation into the events of Bloody Sunday. He produced a report which exonerated the army and instead laid the blame for the killings on the march organisers for creating a dangerous situation where a confrontation was inevitable. His fiercest criticism of the Army was that their "firing bordered on the reckless".
The Saville Inquiry Report
- Full article: Saville Inquiry
- Full article: Saville Inquiry
The Saville Inquiry reported in June 2010 some 38 years after the events and immediately accepted by the British government, found that all of those shot were unarmed, and that the killings were "unjustified and unjustifiable."