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Trial of ex-soldier accused of Bloody Sunday murders to begin
Soldier F faces charges for two murders and five attempted murders during Bloody Sunday, following the 2010 Saville Inquiry that found no justification for the shootings.
- A former British soldier, identified as Soldier F, will stand trial charged with murdering two men and attempting to murder five others on Bloody Sunday in 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland.
- Thirteen people were shot dead by British soldiers during a civil rights protest on Bloody Sunday, and a public inquiry found that none of those killed posed a threat.
- The families of the Bloody Sunday victims have waited 53 years for the trial after the prosecution service initially decided not to charge Soldier F but later reversed the decision following a court challenge.
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The first trial in Belfast for more than half a century has begun for one of the bloodiest events in the 30-year Northern Ireland conflict - "Bloody Sunday", when British soldiers killed 14 unarmed protesters in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.
Bloody Sunday. Bloody Sunday. The massacre of civilian activists defending non-violence, carried out by a group of British soldiers of the Parachute Regiment in Londonderry (Derry, for Catholics), on January 30, 1972, became a symbol of the Irish cause, immortalized by the U2 group in their song Sunday Bloody Sunday. 14 people died from indiscriminate firing by the military. For the first time in more than half a century, a soldier has sat on th…
A former British soldier is on trial for two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday.
Former paratrooper, the "F soldier" has been tried since Monday. He is accused of two murders of Catholic militants. This had happened a bloody Sunday of January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland.
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