Bloody Sunday

This Sunday marked the 40th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday tragedy in Londonderry (Derry) in Northern Ireland, when soldiers opened fire on unarmed civil rights demonstrators, killing 13. It is one of the most well-known incidents of The Troubles, a period of political violence in Northern Ireland that began in 1969 and ended in 1998.

Until last year, the people of Derry held a march each year to mark the day. Last year they agreed that there was no longer a need. The British government had admitted the soldiers shot first and the dead were innocent people. This year there was a smaller march simply to mark the anniversary.