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Originally Posted by dr wadd
It's all swings and roundabouts, was Bloody Sunday justified?
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Answer the question m8.
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Originally Posted by towny
OK, so let's be absolutely clear about this. Are you saying that you believe this was justified in the name of a Republic of all Ireland?
Incidentally, the Loyalist population of Northern Ireland are largely descended from Scots, not English.  |
Well do you?
For the record, I think the shooting of unarmed civilians without provocation is despicable. Even if the army was shot at first, they were aware that the crowd was largely a peaceful civil rights movement and should not have started spraying the place with bullets.
It is possible that the IRA was using that peaceful crowd as cover and if they were, and if they did shoot first, I would be suspicious that it was a cynical ploy to goad the Army into a firefight in which everyone must have realised civilians would get hurt.
I have no trouble condemning such actions. How about you?