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Bloody Sunday came to be regarded as one of the most significant events of the Troubles because so many civilians were killed by forces of the state, in view of the public and the press. [1] It was the highest number of people killed in a shooting incident during the conflict and is considered the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history ...
The 35th Bloody Sunday memorial march in Derry. This article details the events as they occurred on Bloody Sunday (1972) . March organisers' intentions and response of the authorities
Since 1965, many marches have commemorated the events of Bloody Sunday, usually held on or around the anniversary of the original event, and currently known as the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee. [135] In March 1975, Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., led four thousand marchers commemorating Bloody Sunday. [136]
Here are some of the key dates in the decades-long campaign for justice by the families of civilians killed by soldiers on Bloody Sunday in January 1972. – January 30 1972
Lord Saville chaired the long-running probe into the events of January 30, 1972.
Jean Hegarty, whose younger brother Kevin McElhinney was shot dead on Bloody Sunday, reflected on the chances of getting justice so many years later. She said: “The events now are bittersweet.
Bloody Sunday (1939) or Bromberg Bloody Sunday, events in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II Stanislawow Ghetto massacre (German: Blutsonntag von Stanislau, Ukrainian: Кривава неділя у Станіславі), a 1941 massacre of Jews before the Stanisławów Ghetto announcement
A judicial inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday, which took place at the height of Northern Ireland's 30-year sectarian conflict, said in 2010 the victims were innocent and had posed no threat ...