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Hello and welcome to the witness podcast History Told by the People Who Were There.

I'm Mike Lanchin.

Today we go back to the 1970s and the conflict

between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists in Northern Ireland. On January

the 30th 1972 British paratroopers opened fire on a civil rights

march killing 13 civilians in what became known as Bloody Sunday.

I've spoken to Tony Doherty, whose father Patrick was one of the men killed that day.

It's January the 30th, 1972, and the streets of Londonderry are bristling with tension.

Bricks and bottles are hurled at British soldiers by protesters, angry at new government powers to detain

suspected terrorists indefinitely. The soldiers respond with rubber bullets. But later the soldiers start to use live ammunition against the demonstrators.

The first body I saw was that of a youth being carried out by other civilians with a priest in the lead,

waving a bloodied handkerchief as a white flag.

As firing continued, we've made our way gingerly forward across an open space

devoid of cover to the Rossville flats where we were to see more bodies and

more evidence than the fatalities. By the end of the day 13 civilians lie dead.

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