This has all the makings of a 'who fired first' battle, giving the impression that the incident was Brits versus I.R.A. - which it wasn't, of course, but why let facts get in the way of a good argument.
It was, once again, a case of the Army firing on unarmed demonstrators and killing thirteen of them, and there can be no justification of that whatever. It has been suggested that one soldier alone was responsible for four deaths.
Just as with the earlier Civil Rights demonstrations in Derry, if the British Government had taken seriously the legitimate grievences of the people of Northern Ireland in the first place instead of doing what they always do and attemptng to suppress them with military force, Bloody Sunday would not have happened, nor would the decades of slaughter that followed.
When will they ever learn, and when will we ever get round to stopping them from acting as if the Empire is still at its height?
These murders were carried out in our name.
Jim Carroll