Bloody Sunday - Shocking Frontline Footage Captures Troubles-Era Massacre (1972)

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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[@windowman929]

British troops in Ireland, what could possibly go wrong.....

[@stephenholmes1036]

It was the parachute regiment and the clowns in command, Especially Ford

[@BillyWebb-eu3cs]

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 🤣

[@24632860]

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.

[@angloaust1575]

The Warrenpoint 1979 the paras lost 18 Instead of being on foot spaced out they were in lorries!

[@Ripper36068]

And all started by Martin McGuiness taking pop shots at the British Army!

[@MiloAnglin05]

That’s just a plain lie

[@stephenholmes1036]

The parachute regiment attack marchers on a beach a week earlier. John Hume warned the Paras were out for blood and was proven right

[@gunnerbob1855]

@@MiloAnglin05 You have proof of that then ?

[@MiloAnglin05]

@@gunnerbob1855 I didn’t make the accusation did I . And try not to believe what was said by local orange touts.

[@lablackzed]

I served there some scary times some good times ex 1Rrf.🇬🇧

[@brianallen858]

KZbin with a gambling advert on the the backs of this atrocity shame on KZbin shame 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@Farmguy1]

Yeah, you try being a young soldier in that position, then tell me what you would find yourself doing! FO!!

[@olearyma57]

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.

[@gottmituns813]

NEVER FORGET

[@tedtheturbot]

'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.

[@bfc3057]

You're very confused. You're thinking of the enquiry by Lord Haddock into a march by fish in 1972. I hope you get to fill your day with people either taking your comment seriously or arguing with you. You're all very YT day filler formulaic ie establishment = corruption = conspiracy = no credibility etc etc I'm sure somebody will bite on it for you.

[@bfc3057]

Please, not the old financial skimming off routine.

[@Buckshot9796]

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.

[@kenking1228]

They seem to be very dead he says,Paras doing their job properly,I say!.🤔

[@olearyma57]

Bit like some people brain.

[@kenking1228]

@@olearyma57 Speak for yourself!.

[@olearyma57]

@@kenking1228 No prefer to live an evidence based existence. Very profitable.

[@Bonnaci-G]

You’re a vile entity Ken

[@cannonfodder6654]

Through the little streets of Belfast In the dark of early morn British soldiers came a-running Wrecking little homes with scorn

[@pod9538]

WANKERS 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 with you always as proud Irish man.

[@andrewlea3796]

It’s Irishman ….one word you plastic paddy …

[@clanmacgillgallowayscotlan5017]

Ireland and Ukraine are sisters

[@A-10Thunderbolt-lk7ul]

No country will ever know our struggle

[@northwalesmod]

At least the Ukrainians Wear a uniform to fight for there country !

[@adrianwalker2833]

One big difference is, I thought, that Ireland is a democratic country.

[@stephenholmes1036]

​@@northwalesmodread about the B specials, voting , Catholics treated like muck politicians like Faulkner. Chichester Clarke , Craig and Paisley