The Effects of Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday marked the day of a out lash of great hatred which burns
strong even today.
Bloody Sunday started when the Catholics started a march for civil
rights; better housing and comparative costs for the housing as
Protestants had better housing for the same rent as the Catholics did
even when they had the worst housing. The march also focused on
Interment, and the infringement on their rights because of that;
Interment meant that the police could arrest anybody slightly
suspected of being part of the IRA and committing terrorist acts or is
likely too in the near future.
Mainly Catholics were arrested by these means, though 2 Protestants
were also arrested under interment.
The march was declared illegal, but was carried out regardless of this
fact on January 30th 1972. The English government allowed the march to
carry on, however they put up 27 barricades to stop them marching into
central Derry and into more protestant areas. Ironically the majority
catholic area 'Bogside' was the place where they marched.
The government used soldiers from the 1st parachute regiment, a
questionable group to use as they are trained to kill in battlefield
situations, not generally used in "Riot control", there mission was to
go in and "scoop up" anybody causing trouble in the march, basically
trying to cause a riot.
The soldiers held back firing as resistance unfolded at the
barricades, though tear gas, water hoses and rubber bullets where
fired at the people inciting a fight at the barricades, though these
were a select few, the majority of the marchers carried on through
until they arrived at...
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Drumcree parade; three young brothers are killed in a Loyalist petrol
bomb attack in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim (12 July).
So in Conclusion; both Catholics and Protestants in large majorities
wont accept any new findings the Seville Enquiry can possibly find
regarding Bloody Sunday, the attacks from both sides have carried on
through out time, regardless of attempts to quell the hatred, both
groups believe what they have been brought up to believe, and from
what they experienced both in Bloody Sunday and other events, both
groups wont accept anything the report says, because the Catholics
have reason not to trust the British government due to past events,
and the Protestants wont accept any blame laid upon them because
they'll treat it as a means to quieten the Catholics, rather than the
truth it's self.
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