Bloody Sunday, also known as the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre of Irish anti-internment protesters by the British government that took place on this day in 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.

Bloody Sunday resulted in the highest number of people killed in a shooting incident during the Troubles and remains the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history. This violence was in response to a protest organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in opposition to a state policy of internment without trial, introduced in August of 1971.

On January 18th, 1972, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner banned all parades and marches in response to widespread civil unrest. The protest march was organized despite this order.

On the day of the protest, approximately 10,000-15,000 joined the march, however their path was blocked by British Army barriers. The protest descended into chaos, with British soldiers chasing down protesters and attacking them indiscriminately. 26 people were shot, 14 were killed. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers or attending to the wounded, while others were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, batons, or being ran down by army vehicles.

The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion Parachute Army, which had perpetrated the Ballymurphy Massacre just months prior. The events of Bloody Sunday greatly increased hostilities between Northern Ireland and the British government. Support for and recruitment by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) rose following the massacre.

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  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    Weird how quickly ICJ Interim Measures on Israel vanished from Wikipedia main page.

    Still there on Arabic Wikipedia main btw, which is generally more sympathetic to Palestine.

      • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        yea no mention of ICJ at all on the main page, just 'Israel-Hamas war'. The wording is also completely different:

        Arabic Wiki:

        Operation Al-Aqsa Flood , and in Israel Operation Iron Swords , as some sources refer to it Intifada as the Third . Or the Palestinian-Israeli war, informally referred to as the Battle of October 7th , It is an extended military operation launched by the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip , led by the Hamas movement , through its military arm, the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in the early morning hours of Saturday ( October 7 , 2023 AD ) corresponding to (Rabi’ al-Awwal 22, 1445 AH). The Commander-in-Chief of the Phalange, Muhammad al-Deif , announced the start of the operation in response to “the Israeli violations in the courtyards of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Israeli settlers’ assault on Palestinian citizens in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the occupied interior

        English Wiki

        On 7 October 2023, the paramilitary wings of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PRC, PFLP, and the DFLP launched a series of coordinated armed incursions into the Gaza envelope of neighboring Israeli territory, the first invasion of Israel since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The attacks, on a Saturday, initiated the Israel–Hamas war, almost exactly 50 years after Operation Badr and the greater Yom Kippur War of 6 October 1973. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups named the attacks Operation Al-Aqsa Flood (or Deluge; Arabic: عملية طوفان الأقصى, romanized: ʿamaliyyat ṭūfān al-ʾAqṣā, usually romanised as "Tufan Al-Aqsa" or "Toofan Al-Aqsa"),[1] while in Israel they are referred to as Black Saturday (Hebrew: השבת השחורה)[20] or the Simchat Torah Massacre (הטבח בשמחת תורה),[21] and internationally as the 7 October attack.[22][23][24]