Bloody Sunday: 50 Years On

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Half a century ago on January 30 1972, British soldiers shot dead 14 unarmed protesters during a civil rights march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment ("1 Para"), the same battalion implicated in the Ballymurphy massacre just months before. It took decades of campaigning and two huge inquests by the UK Government to accept sole wrongdoing and apologise for the atrocity.

In this episode, James chats to Julieann Campbell, the spokesperson for the Bloody Sunday family whose uncle Jackie Daddy, 17, was the first fatality of the massacre. Julieann has written a new book, ‘On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There’, to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest days of The Troubles.

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0:00.0	The conclusions of this report are absolutely clear. There is no doubt, there is nothing equivocal, there are no ambiguities.
0:11.2	What happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable.
0:17.0	Welcome back to Warfare.
0:20.0	I'm your host James Rogers and this week we're marking the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
0:26.4	It was in January 1972 that a peaceful civil rights march in Northern Ireland ended in bloodshed. Troops from Britain's 1st Battalion parachute
0:35.4	regiment opened fire on unarmed marches. They left 13 dead and 18 wounded. Another died later, and seven of those killed were teenage boys. And so it was
0:46.4	that day that became known as Bloody Sunday. To take us through this history we have
0:51.4	Julianne Campbell, a former chair of the Bloody Sunday
0:54.5	Trust who took on the role of Family Press Officer ahead of the report of the Bloody Sunday
1:00.0	Inquiry in 2010. Julianne is the author of a new book on Bloody Sunday, a new history of the day and its
1:08.1	aftermath in the words of those who were there. And therefore Julianne is the ideal person to reveal a long
1:15.1	contested history of peace, of protest and of violence. Yes. Hi Julianne, welcome to warfare. How are you doing today? How has the start to your new year been?
1:40.0	Quiet and slow. Thank you for having me on today. It is great to have you here because you might have had a quiet and slow start to the year, but I imagine it's going to pick up in pace pretty quickly, especially as we mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, which occurred on January 30th,
1:56.5	1972. Now, as soon as we mention Bloody Sunday, many of those listening will immediately see the image in
2:05.1	their mind's eye of Catholic priest Edward daily waving a blood-stained white handkerchief
2:10.6	while trying to get your uncle Jackie Duddy to safety as he lay fatally wounded.
2:17.0	But perhaps you can start by taking us back step by step through the events that led to Bloody Sunday.
2:22.8	Bloody Sunday was an internment march, which was one of the civil rights demands
2:27.4	was an end to internment, which was imprisonment without trial.
2:30.4	A lot of young men here, mostly of a Catholic nationalist persuasion were arrested and put in jail for no reason. They had no trial, nothing. And it scores of people hundreds. And so, Bloody Sunday March was an anti-interment March.
2:45.4	And it was a really a family-oriented day.
2:48.6	You know, I don't think anyone actually expected any trouble
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