Monday 30th January 2012 is the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Irish Civil Rights protestors by the British Army.
Thirteen marchers were shot dead on 30 January 1972 in the City of Derry, Ireland, when British paratroopers opened fire on crowds at a civil rights demonstration. Fourteen others were wounded, one later died. The Saville Report is heavily critical of the Army and found that soldiers fired the first shot.
In presenting the results of the Saville Enquiry in the House of Commons on 15 June 2010 Prime Minister David Cameron said:
No warning had been given to any civilians before the soldiers opened fire
None of the soldiers fired in response to attacks by petrol bombers or stone throwers
Some of those killed or injured were clearly fleeing or going to help those injured or dying
None of the casualties was posing a threat or doing anything that would justify their shooting
Many of the soldiers lied about their actions
The events of Bloody Sunday were not premeditated
Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuiness, Sinn Fein, was present at the time of the violence and "probably armed with a sub-machine gun" but did not engage in "any activity that provided any of the soldiers with any justification for opening fire"
History will record how the dual moral travesties of Bloody Sunday and Internment without Trial (and without intelligent intelligence) of 1,200 people created and empowered the Provisional IRA. The abandonment of moral authority by the British State to support the failed political entity of Northern Ireland created a poisonous moral equivalence to allow the IRA to justify its hijacking of the Civil Rights movement with its own brand of crypto fascism.
The above mural in Derry contains portraits of the 14 people who were killed by the British Army on 'Bloody Sunday.' In addition to the portraits, there are also 14 oak leaves with each leaf symbolising one of the victims. Derry takes its name from the Irish word Doire meaning oakgrove.
The moral abandonment was compounded by the no warning terrorist bombing of Libya and illegal attempted assassination of Colonel Gaddafi by a group called the USAF operating from a British base which resulted in the IRA having an unlimited supply of Semtex explosive.
No one has ever been punished for the Bloody Sunday murders, indeed the officer commanding the Paratroopers was promoted after the event.
As you sow so shall you reap?
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