The story of what the British army did in Londonderry on 30 January 1972 is well-known. As then-Prime Minister David Cameron said in June 2010, after the report of the twelve-year inquiry led by Lord Mark Saville of Newdigate was released, the First Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1 PARA), had entered the Bogside on a mission to arrest rioters “as a result of an order which should not have been given” and once there they were guilty of “losing their self-control”, killing thirteen civilians and shooting thirteen more, one of whom died four-and-a-half months later. They had also “put forward false accounts to seek to justify their firing” in the aftermath.
Bloody Sunday and the Irish Republican Army
Bloody Sunday and the Irish Republican Army
Bloody Sunday and the Irish Republican Army
The story of what the British army did in Londonderry on 30 January 1972 is well-known. As then-Prime Minister David Cameron said in June 2010, after the report of the twelve-year inquiry led by Lord Mark Saville of Newdigate was released, the First Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1 PARA), had entered the Bogside on a mission to arrest rioters “as a result of an order which should not have been given” and once there they were guilty of “losing their self-control”, killing thirteen civilians and shooting thirteen more, one of whom died four-and-a-half months later. They had also “put forward false accounts to seek to justify their firing” in the aftermath.