Jackie Duddy was shot in the back running away from the shooting alongside Father Edward Daly.

@@johnking5174absolutely disgusting.. when my teacher spoke of Bloody Sunday I wasn’t sure which one he’d been speaking about until he clarified… disgusting behaviour by the brits

@bfc3057 It is a very probable description of what actually transpired. It isn't about sincerity or insincerity...I have no particular axe to grind. It is, however, of interest to me to try to imagine and make sense of the wider picture behind events on that tragic day. The result of the shootings was escalation and increased conflict that lasted nearly another 30 years and cost over 3000 lives. This single tragic event was a major cause of increased conflict, and the beginning of a quest for justice and understanding that still remains unfulfilled to this day. That isnt exclusively about the IRA or the Paras, but it is inclusively 100% tragic and a lamentable incident. I have sympathy for everyone involved, in any capacity, who suffered on or remains traumatised by the chaotic and violent events of a bewildering, confusing, frightening and ultimatrly totally tragic day. They say the first casualty of war or conflict is truth. On that day it certainly was.

@bfc3057 You don't seem to be as objective as you might be either. Nobody has a monopoly on conjecture, truth, or wisdom. But I'm fairly clear that the tragedy of that day was almost certainly a total cause and effect outcome. Rioters and Paratroopers were both 'stoked up' and acted on instinct, not reason. The result was deadly errors of judgement amid chaotic confusion, error, fear, and mistakes. The lack of fire control by The Army was undoubtedly the main, highly questionable event. But, they maintained that they came under attack. Perhaps the whole truth will never be known. The apportionment of blame after 50 years is virtually impossible. It is, in any event, relatively unimportant. The real tragedy was the chain of events that led to the horrific outcome of death and injury.

@bfc3057 No thanks. I've got enough firelighting paper.

@@bfc3057 I will. I'm away in Highland Scotland, and I'm sure it will be!

@bfc3057 I am on my 8th visit...I think I know where to go and what to do.

Possibly?, But if they threw petrol bombs at you and shot at you, then they become a legitimate targets!.

@@501sqn3 yeah but like it didn't happen? so that doesn't matter here

Cunts I think is the word to be used.

@@johnking5174 yeah i think it was autocorrect

That doesn’t sound ignorant to me.

The most you can say is that they mistook their own warning shots for sniper fire from the IRA. That is the most generous I think anybody can be toward justifying the behavior of the paratroopers.

Why would the families of the 13 murdered lie. Use your common sense.

@@johnking5174 it's holy war. Everyone is trying to postulate their agenda to appear like the side with the true righteous cause. They want to convey the reasons for what happened, but most importantly whose to blame. This was armed struggle not a slam poetry competition. The truth in war is never just black and white. There's a thousand shades of gray to it.

@@Shinobi33What happened on Bloody Sunday was not war! It was murder of unarmed civilians.

@@neasa4222 just like Oct. 7 huh in Israel? You mess with the army, agitate them, attack them, and you're surprised they retaliate? Come on man...... Maybe don't go starting battles if you ain't armed for battle. Don't bring rocks to a gun fight. Just a thought.

The PARA company was sent in by the British government to teach the Catholic nationalists a lesson. I always believe that. And it backfired. Scumbag Prime Minister Heath caused it.

@jamesmccartney5324 That’s exactly what I thought it seemed to me the soldiers were the only side under scrutiny.

​@@bfc3057 you talking nonsense again 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hear hear 👏👏

@leongt1954 Northern Ireland is in the UK so I take it you’re talking about the IRA being in Northern Ireland?

Very sad his death

....."Londonderry" !. 🙄

is this the full one

What a stupid comment

1 he's not a vicar 2 when you're bleeding to death CPR is no good 3 You haven't got a fucking brain

Priest actually, and how do you know he didn't do so?

CPR is for heart attacks. I'm not sure it's effective against gun shot wounds.

why not Kenya one

The problem is the parachute regiment was the wrong regiment to have there. There was innocent people killed that day , whether all of them were innocent i don t know. I do know when politicians lie and I know for certain violence begets violence with no winners

Throwing stones is something complete different then shooting people in the back that are running away and using up unbelievably many rounds of ammunition. This is not comparable and not a proportionate reaction in any case.

@Queen Cali No, I am saying the exact opposite. Even if the people that were murdered were "not innocent" the way that the soldiers shot then is in no way justifiable.

@Queen Cali checkout Mi lai massacre in Vietnam. That'll show babies shot out of their mother's arms by the US Army

Fuck soldier F and the loyalist scumbags that stand with him

@@francenjensen608 lol 😆 rottweilers ? So funny

hard pressed to find a bloody sunday documentary without an english voiceover unfortunately

Why?

@@stever6894 No such place Mate. Can't see it on the atlas where I come from.

Where is that

@@RobertK1993 The surname says it all.

Too much more like. What about justice the 1700 murdered by the ira?

@@jamesmccartney5324 whataboutery at it's finest there !

@@susanclarke485 they were killed accidentally

@Bubbles DeVille You've completely missed the point. They were imprisoned you muppet. Thousands of IRA men - many of them innocent - were imprisoned. Your whataboutery doesn't make any sense.

Why's it not covered under the good Friday agreement? Wasn't all prisoners released under it?

I m of Irish and British mixed race , I agree this makes me angry too but no mater what the provocations violence comes from the top minority who order the shots, shame on them as they have been caught out in the intervening years.. violence creates violence and we know this now R I P all who died !

...it's "Londonderry" 🖕🇬🇧