Bloody Sunday: January 30, 1972, a group of civil rights protestors marching in Derry, Northern Ireland in response to internments (People held in jail without due process of law) turned bloody when British soldiers, sent in to break up the protest, fired on the group, killing 13. While not considered a terrorist act, it is a tragic event that begat "The Troubles." A inquiry into the tragedy in 1974 found the British army to be without fault in the incident, but most people believed that to be a whitewash.
PROTESTANTS ATTACK CATHOLIC CHILDREN IN NORTHERN IRELAND
The faction calling itself “The Red Hand Defenders”, associated with the main Protestant grouping Ulster Defence Association, has claimed responsibility for the attack, in which a blast bomb was launched into the middle of a column of Catholic parents shepherding their children to what was their first day at primary school.
A day to remember happily for most, but not in Northern Ireland. To reach Holly Cross School, the children had to cross Ardoyne, an area predominantly inhabited by Protestants in northern Belfast. The bomb blast fortunately did not cause any fatal casualties but four policemen were injured.
How it is possible for a group of grown men to plan such an attack on 5- and 6-year-old children just because their parents have christened them as Catholics could only be explained by those who live in the troubled province of Ulster, since the logic defies understanding by anyone living outside it.
more here >>> http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/07/14451.html
Sunday 7 February 1982
Martin Kyles (19), a Catholic civilian, died two days after being shot by British Soldiers as he travelled ('joy riding') in a stolen car in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Falls Road, Belfast.
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch82.htm
Frank Rowntree 11 years, Lower Clonard Street, Falls Road, west Belfast, shot with a (doctored) rubber bullet on 20 April 1972, at the Divis Flats, by members of the British Army’s Royal Anglian Regiment. He died in the Royal Victoria Hospital three days later on 23 April.
more here >>>
http://www.relativesforjustice.com/vict ... wntree.htm
Here is an article on rubber bullets fired by British soldiers
>>> http://www.slate.com/id/1006194/
The bullets are supposed to be shot at the lower half of the body; about 19 people have been killed by them in Northern Ireland mostly because of injury to the head.
There is alot more killings by the British that I haven't mentioned here, I'm doing a search at the moment and will post more later.



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