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On Sunday January 30th 1972 twenty-seven people were shot by British soldiers during a civil rights march in the Bogside area of the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. Thirteen of the victims were shot dead, with one further man later dying of his wounds. The official army line was that the Paratoopers had reacted to the threat of gunmen and nail-bombs from suspected IRA members. However, this is refuted by resisdents of Bogside who witnessesed events, many of whom claim that the soldiers shot indiscriminately into the crowd, or aiming at fleeing people and those tending the wounded. No weapons of any kind were found on the bodies of the dead, or any of the 60 or so arrested.

This article needs a lot of work - this a contentious event. It needs a lot more detail on the events of the day and lots on the background, imediate aftermath and long term effects of Bloody Sunday. This is an on-going issue in Britian, as well as NI. Hopefully this stub will kick this article off well. Research could include the following articles and web sites:

General

• The Saville Inquiry
  

• The Bloody Sunday Trust
  

• Guardian Coverage
  

• BBC Coverage

The Events of the Day

• Guardian Interactive Guide

• BBC Interactive Guide

Contempory Newspaper coverage

• "13 killed as paratroops break riot" from The Guardian, Monday January 31, 1972

• "Bogsiders insist that soldiers shot first" from The Guardian, Tuesday February 1, 1972

Importance and impact

• "Shootings 'triggered decades of violence'"