Bloody Sunday & The Saville report

A collection of videos and archives about the 1972 event and its aftermath
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Bloody Sunday: One gun's story

Col. Tim Collins describes how a gun that may have been used by soldiers on Bloody Sunday was recovered in Sierra Leone by the 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment, the very same battalion at the centre of the 1972 shootings.

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15:51 on 14 June 2010, Deaglan wrote:

Kinda puts things in perspective...

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Analysis

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Key Players

Mini-biographies of the six men regarded as the key players from the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

Bloody Sunday Gallery

The Bloody Sunday memorial in Derry’s Bogside, with an old copy of the Derry Journal placed beside it. Bloody Sunday Archives

View images from the Bloody Sunday archives

Resources

The Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry
Bloody Sunday Trust
CAIN: Bloody Sunday