31 January 1972
Bloody Sunday was just yesterday with thirteen men being killed outright from the bullets a fourteenth would die a few months later. Although 26 civilians had been shot outright and other protesters had been injured via shrapnel, rubber billets and batons and two run down by army vehicles. All of those shot were Catholics. The march had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment ("1 Para"), the same regiment implicated in the Ballymurphy massacre several months prior to the Bloody Sunday in Londonderry/Derry.
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Troubled | History RPG
Fiksi SejarahThe Troubles- The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) was an ethno-nationalist[13][14][15][16] period of conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.[17] Also known internationally as the Northern Irelan...
