50 years later, the wounds of Bloody Sunday are still bleeding
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A mural depicting the “Bloody Sunday” protests in the Catholic neighborhood of Bogside on January 17, 2022. © Paul Faith/AFP
By: Laura Taouchanov
On January 30, 1972, around 150,000 Catholics took part in a peaceful demonstration in Derry, Northern Ireland, to demand the same rights as Protestants.
Result: 14 victims killed by British soldiers.
Bloody Sunday not only sent a wave of emotion across Northern Ireland, it also set the stage for three decades of civil war.
Fifty years later, the people of Derry have commemorated an event that continues to haunt them as British paratroopers have never been convicted.
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