January 30th 1972 - Bloody Sunday, Northern Ireland
cn | 01 February, 2007 00:51On Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland thirteen civilians were shot dead by a squad of British paratroopers during a civil rights march.
The website Sign of the Times ran a story on it yesterday:
Under direct orders to "get some kills", the British soldiers opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, killing thirteen including six children. Five of the dead had been shot in the back. One demonstrator was shot twice in the back as he lay wounded on the ground. Another was shot at close range in the face. There was also evidence to suggest that some soldiers had used modified "dum dum" bullets that create a larger wound with greater blood loss and trauma.
All the dead were unarmed members of the civilian community.
The article makes some bold predictions about an inquiry by the British government due out some time this year. However, whether the inquiry finds the British troops responsible for what many call a massacre might be irrelevant as, conveniently, 35 years have past and the incident is but a distant memory to so much of the world.
I think the article closes with a very applicable, if somewhat jaded outlook:
Like so many similar events before it, Bloody Sunday had the potential to literally change the world: to open the eyes of normal human beings to the truth about the nature of certain individuals that we have come to call our leaders. Sadly, that potential is unlikely to ever be realised, chiefly due to the fact that the same 'leaders' control the extent and nature of the information that reaches the public mind.
The masses of normal humanity therefore find themselves caught in a trap of their own design. Imprisoned by their own refusal to believe, against all evidence, that their political leaders would ever consciously do anything to harm them, they thus provide these same leaders with unlimited scope to pursue their criminal and duplicitous agenda.
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