"If" There were plenty of reports along those lines on Bloody Sunday. Naturally. Other reports say that the shooting started when someone chucked a stone at the school the soldiers were using as a barracks.

And the reason why thgere'd have been children in the crowd or so, as mexican asked, would have been because the protest was calling for the soldiers to give back the school building.

Whether or not Bloody Sunday was a deliberate massacre or not, that was a reasonable suspicion, Ringer. I doubt if that particulalr explanation of what hapened on Monday would be very plausible, that's what IO meant.

Reports put the crowd involved at about 200. Nearly eighty wounded, 13-17 dead. And not one of the dead or wounded from among teh soliers it seems. That is a rather comprehensive shoot-out. It doesn't sound like professionals carefully shoopting at a handful of armed opponents. It sound like people with automatic weapons just blazing away.

But maybe there are facts we don't know yet.That's why a proper investigation by independent investigators is needed, and needed fast.