How the prosecution of an Army veteran over Bloody Sunday ended in acquittal
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Getty Images Youths in a stand-off with British soldiers on Bloody Sunday
Sunday 30 January 1972 was one of the most deadly – and consequential – days during three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland. In the streets where it happened – the images of Bloody Sunday are painted on the walls and seared in people's minds. A civil rights march was held on a wintry, sunny afternoon in Londonderry. The demonstration was a protest against the policy of internment – imprisoning people without trial – which had been put in place following three years of violence. Not guilty verdict in Bloody Sunday murder trial
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Soldiers from the Parachute Regiment shot dead 13 people in the Bogside area – which was, and still is, a strongly Irish nationalist community. One image became particularly prominent. Pictures showed a Catholic priest, Fr Edward Daly, waving a blood-stained white handkerchief as he tried to protect a group carrying
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