Bloody Sunday - Shocking Frontline Footage Captures Troubles-Era Massacre (1972)
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2024
- On 30 January 1972, British soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment ("1 Para") opened fire on unarmed civilians taking part in a civil rights march in the Bogside, a predominantly Catholic area of the Northern Irish city of Derry. Soldiers shot a total of 26 people, 13 of whom died that day. A 14th casualty, John Johnston, died of his wounds four months later. Bloody Sunday claimed the highest number of people killed in a single shooting incident during the entirety of the Troubles, and remains Northern Ireland's deadliest mass shooting.
ITN's cameras recorded the day's descent into tragedy, capturing footage of the peaceful march organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), scenes of panic and violence in the Bogside, and the immediate aftermath as casualties were loaded into ambulances and paratroopers detained local civilians. ITN's Gerald Seymour also interviewed eyewitness Father Anthony Mulvey as well as commander of 1 Para, Colonel Derek Wilford. Wilford described the day's casualties (incorrectly placed at five) as "unfortunate", but insisted his men had been fired on first. The Saville Inquiry's 2010 report, released after a 12-year investigation, found otherwise. It concluded that all of those killed were unarmed, and that soldiers had falsified accounts of the day to justify their opening fire.
On 19 April 2024, the UK's Public Prosecution Service announced that fifteen former soldiers investigated for perjury over Bloody Sunday will not face any charges, citing "insufficient" evidence. Campaigners and relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday have criticised the ruling, with one describing it as a "slap in the teeth". But PPS senior public prosecutor John O'Neill explained that the finding was based in part on "complex evidential and legal issues", and made clear that it does not in any way "undermine the findings of the Bloody Sunday [Saville] Inquiry".
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British troops in Ireland, what could possibly go wrong.....
It was the parachute regiment and the clowns in command, Especially Ford
It was the IRA who started bloody sunday and now all the republicans are crying for compensation while they scrounge benefits off of the British government they detest so much. Imagine having to take money from the enemy to feed your family and house yourself because you cant do it 🤣
Labour sent them in. Didn’t want the embarrassment of having the UN go in which would have been the better option for all concerned.
Got it sorted though didn’t they
@Jim_is_Burning no they built the Provos
The Warrenpoint 1979 the paras lost 18
Instead of being on foot spaced out they were in lorries!
They weren’t patrolling, it was a routine troop movement.
RUclips with a gambling advert on the the backs of this atrocity shame on RUclips shame 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Guy who uploaded had the choice to turn ads off, not RUclips’s fault
And all started by Martin McGuiness taking pop shots at the British Army!
That’s just a plain lie
The parachute regiment attack marchers on a beach a week earlier. John Hume warned the Paras were out for blood and was proven right
@@MiloAnglin05 You have proof of that then ?
@@gunnerbob1855 I didn’t make the accusation did I . And try not to believe what was said by local orange touts.
That claim is a flat lie. We know for certain that what the army claimed was an IRA gunman wasn't McGuiness. Though even the existence of this man is debatable as some witnesses claim they existed while others don't. Leading us to believe there was no gunman
'The Saville Inquiry's 2010 report [UK governments in-house judicial investigation], released after a 12-YEAR INVESTIGATION, found otherwise [that the Irish demonstrators didn't fire upon the soldiers first].'..of course it did. BUT the investigation cost 190 million (officials taking the opportunity to skim off the top), was given a flash name (to infer credibility into it's findings in the hope of quelling public criticism) and took over 30 years to produce from the time of the incident (in hope that most people have forgotten what happened AND to infer it wasn't really that important whilst quietly shoving a finger up at the public by making it take so long). Understand the entire report dynamic was designed to be dealt with in this despicable way from the start - eg there's no way it should have taken that long. Pre-meditated institutionalised corruption at the highest level.
NEVER FORGET
Yikes! Lot's of P.O.'d people! Imagine each rock and bottle a bullet or rocket! Thank God this conflict seems to have cooled.
They seem to be very dead he says,Paras doing their job properly,I say!.🤔
Bit like some people brain.
@@olearyma57 Speak for yourself!.
@@kenking1228 No prefer to live an evidence based existence. Very profitable.
You’re a vile entity Ken
I served there some scary times some good times ex 1Rrf.🇬🇧
Yeah, you try being a young soldier in that position, then tell me what you would find yourself doing! FO!!
It is the Parachute Regiment self proclaimed toughest soldiers in the world. Ye same battalion performed at Ballymurphy massacre six months before, Still to come same year Whiterock massacre. Westrock massacre. Next year New Lodge massacre. To answer your question : you kill unarmed civilians on an epic scale of course.
@@olearyma57 The PIRA & their supporters would have been obliterated by Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain or Stalin's Soviet Union, you completely exaggerate. Instead, Irish people moved to Britain in their tens of thousands whilst claiming they were at war with, er, Britain. Quite funny really.
@@KeithWilliamMacHendry And the British Empire would have been atomised by the Soviet nuclear arsenal during the cold war. And British Honk Konk atomised to dust if the Chinese turned off the water. And the British Raj went running when the ........ blah. What are you on about ?; Talk to the point. What are you on about ?. Too much Blenheim, Waterloo, Trafalgar and Churchill at school or the boys brigade. I myself was born in Willesden London to parents who moved from Ireland in the 1950s lived in the Irish community of north west london until my teen years and never once (NOT ONCE get it !) heard any person in St. Mary Magdalen parish claim to be at war with Britain. My friend the only thing that is funny is the farm designed to allow minds with a limited grip to graze. Return to those pastures.
Blue on blue.....British citizens murdered by British soldiers...😢
Through the little streets of Belfast
In the dark of early morn
British soldiers came a-running
Wrecking little homes with scorn
WANKERS 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 with you always as proud Irish man.
It’s Irishman ….one word you plastic paddy …
You weren't ever born when it happened, Seamus.
How the feck is 14 bodybags a "Massacre" 🙄
Ireland and Ukraine are sisters
No country will ever know our struggle
At least the Ukrainians Wear a uniform to fight for there country !
One big difference is, I thought, that Ireland is a democratic country.
@@northwalesmodread about the B specials, voting , Catholics treated like muck politicians like Faulkner. Chichester Clarke , Craig and Paisley