Part II
After the incident, the British army lies in public that the beams are bending!
So General Sir John Ford...
...claims that in the Catholic district of Bogside demonstrators opened fire on the soldiers, which they only returned to protect themselves.
But the facts speak a different language:
Not a single British soldier was even scratched after the action, but at least five demonstrators were definitely hit from behind!
What is also certain is that after the order to cease fire (which came from the police command to whom the soldiers were subordinate!) the Paras fired about 100 more shots from their automatic rifles.
A first official inquiry into the incident by Lord Justice Widgery...
...three months later, the army leadership and the soldiers involved exonerated them (or turned the untruths expressed by the army into facts) - and was by no means neutral, which is why the Northern Irish brusquely rejected the vote!
In January 1998, in the face of ongoing protests from relatives against the first investigations, then Prime Minister Tony Blair announced a thorough revision under Lord Justice Saville...:
This second investigative report, the so-called Saville Report, came to the conclusion on June 15, 2010 that the British soldiers fired first and were not fired on before...:
On the occasion of the presentation of the 5000-page report, Prime Minister David Cameron, on behalf of the British government, asked for forgiveness for the fatal shooting...:
He - Cameron - deeply regrets the use of force by the British Army. Cameron described the soldiers' actions as "unjustified and unacceptable".
To date, no charges have been brought against any of the Paras involved...
On September 22, 2011, the British government decided to compensate the survivors of the victims of Bloody Sunday.
However, many families of the victims have announced that they will not accept any compensation until the deployed soldiers are charged.
"Bloody Sunday" intensified the spiral of violence in the Northern Ireland conflict considerably!
On February 22, 1972, the Northern Irish underground army IRA carried out a bomb attack on the headquarters of the Parachute Brigade in the Aldershot garrison...:
But the car bomb placed in front of the building did not hit any soldiers, as planned, but killed five cleaning ladies, a gardener and a Catholic military chaplain...:
At "Derry" (as the Northern Irish say, who are attracted to Ireland) or "Londonderry" (as the Northern Irish say, who prefer to stay with the UK), this memorial stands today, commemorating the victims of "Bloody Sunday"...
