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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In TOS, the Klingons were an allusion to the American conception of the USSR and the PRC, but TNG solidifying them as Vikings/Samurai/Mongols in space raises some questions about how they can maintain an interstellar Empire when they're so anti-intellectual and seemingly have a feudal society. Gowron can't even read Quark's damn spreadsheet. Worf just kills him in a duel to replace him with Martok. There's no way a society like that can function.
There are numerous schools of fan theory or non cannon materials on this. What I subscribe to is that the Klingon empire of TNG Era has a generally reactionary government and culture, the alliance with the federation and the circumstances surrounding it are a but humiliating and after the explosion of praxis and the khitomer massacre there was a big retvrn thing going on at least culturally. The government itself was still the duplicitous dudes of TOS but under a layer of Honor and Klingon Tradition we don't see at all in the TOS Era, the movies show some Klingons who are doing TNG stuff but we'll just call them a precursor cause it's easier. The viking samurai stuff is a cultural facade both internally and externally. That's kinda what the Klingon/Worf arc over tng and ds9 is about. Ezri even spells it out in an episode.
I can believe that the Klingons are ruled by conniving politicians who use their traditions as a cover for power politics, that's SOP for any society. The problem I have is that their whole society seems so under-developed and unsuited to their level of technological development. I think Star Trek VI portrayed the Klingons best- you had General Eyepatch who was really into the whole honorable warrior stuff, but he also loves Shakespeare and seemed really well-educated. Then you had Gowronachev, who seemed broad-minded, diplomatic, and cunning, much more of a convincing politician than Gowron. And there was his daughter who called the humans racist, implying more progressive elements in their society. The overall impression that the warrior stuff is just one aspect of a much richer culture, and I wish more of the shows went with that. If Quark gave Gowronachev a spreadsheet about a financial attack on a family, he could probably understand it.
TNG is 80 years later. Gowron probably could have read it as well, he signs treaties and shit, he can do paperwork, but doing so in front of council guys as a means of settling intra-klingon issues would be seen as weakness in failing to uphold this facade which many now just straight up believe and Gowron is never in a very politically stable position and has been shown time and time up to his death to be an opportunist, hell, that's why he got killed.