Prosecutors announced charges this week against just one of the British soldiers who opened fire on protesters in 1972, killing 13 unarmed people. For many, the pain of that day has never faded.
A British soldier drags a Catholic protester during Bloody Sunday when British paratroopers killed13 Catholic protesters in Derry on Jan. 30, 1972. By Michael E. Miller Michael E. Miller Local enterprise reporter covering immigration, poverty, inequality and crime Email Bio Follow March 16 at 7:00 AM Before the violence that would make it infamous, Bloody Sunday had begun with beautiful weather and buoyant spirits.
The massacre would have a long and dark legacy. The British Army insisted protesters had opened fire -- a false claim that wasn’t retracted until almost 40 years later. In the meantime, new recruits flocked to the IRA, deepening a sectarian conflict that would claim around 3,600 lives before a peace agreement was reached in 1998.On Thursday, as Ireland and the world prepared to celebrate St.
“British soldiers kill 13 as rioting erupts in Ulster,” read a front-page headline in the New York Times. “None of the casualties shot by soldiers of Support Company was armed with a firearm," the report found. Although one victim may have had nail bombs in his pocket at the time he was shot — his family claimed they were planted by soldiers — “None was posing any threat of causing death or serious injury. In no case was any warning given before soldiers opened fire.”
Although the massacre would echo around the world and roil Northern Ireland for decades to come, its toll was felt most acutely in those tightly knit neighborhoods.Nearly half a century later, however, that wound has not yet fully healed.
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