This is The Guardian.

Water-borted by the British Army by Ian Kabin.

This article contains detailed descriptions of torture and murder.

Shortly after 2 p.m. on the 17th of September 1972, a bright Sunday afternoon,

six soldiers from the second battalion of the parachute regiment were patrolling near the

Balamurphy estate in West Belfast.

If you were a British soldier stationed in Northern Ireland at that time, the area

aryneed Balamurphy was not a place to stand still for too long.

Even when pausing briefly in a doorway, the young soldiers would sway from side to side,

performing a life or death street ballet.

There were three soldiers on either side of the road.

The last man on the left hand side was an 18-year-old private, Frank Bell.

When the patrol reached unexposed and potentially dangerous spot by a side street,

the section commander, a corporal, quickly crossed before pausing to watch his

man follow one at a time.

As private Bell crossed the road, the soldiers heard the crack and fizz of an incoming high velocity

and. Bell was flung backwards, three of the soldiers leapt for cover.

The corporal ran to Bell to drag him out of the open road.

In a subsequent statement to the Royal Military Police, he said,

I loosened private Bell's clothing and noticed he had a hole in the left side of his head,

which was bleeding quite badly.

A local woman ran from her house with cotton wool, which the corporal used to try to

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