Collective punishment, indiscriminate shooting: Bloody Sunday in Derry 50 years ago

On Sunday, January 30, 1972, in Derry in the North of Ireland, the First Battalion of the British Parachute regiment (1Para) carried out a massacre of 14 peaceful demonstrators at an anti-internment march in the Catholic district of the Bogside.

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