Sunday. Bloody Sunday.

Watched Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary tonight.  My whole perception of Bloody Sunday has changed. Orders!!! Orders!!!! Orders!!! were given that day. Saville heard all those secret and sometimes illegal recordings between members of the British Army. I am shocked. Because people in Derry and people in Ireland believed that the British Army went into the Bogside and Derry City to kill the population. No. Only young men and a few accidental fathers or uncles were killed. No women were targeted. Young men. Soldier F and Soldier 027 killed a large majority of those who died on Bloody Sunday.

The big question now is whether those people identified should be prosecuted. Well there were hundreds of troops in Derry that day. Only seven soldiers belonging to the Paratroop Regiment were directly involved in the unlawful killing of fourteen people and the shooting and injuring of another fifteen people. The Parachute Regiment suffered horrendously as a result of what they did in Derry. Warrenpoint satisfied the IRA. So did a bombing of the Paracuhte Regiment Headquarters in England. Eighteen members of the parachute regiment and others were blown to pieces in Warrenpoint. Thousands of others were killed after Bloody Sunday. But the vast majority of people involved in the coflict in Northern Ireland and killed or injured were never directly involved in any conflict. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Should those involved in the killing of innocent people in Derry all those years ago be arrested, charged if evidence exists, brought before a court of law in the United Kigdom and prosecuted for the unlawful killing and serious injury of 29 people? My answer is Yes. My reason is the words I have alreday issued. The Parachute Regiment is a large group of British Soldiers tasked with the protection of the British State. Tasked to represent Britain throughout the world. If five or six soldiers went beserk in Derry all those years ago then those five or six soldiers should have been given up then to Justice. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland made a statement in response to the Saville report quoting that 250,000 army personell served in N. Ireland over the period of the troubles. Well if bloody Sunday had not happend, how many of those young men would not have lost thier lives?