Twenty-six were shot; fourteen died. All were unarmed. The victims: civilians. The shooters: soldiers. These are the bare facts of Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday on January 30, 1972, the day the British Army’s First Battalion Parachute Regiment opened fire on a civil rights march on the streets of Derry, targeting protesters even as they ran for cover or rushed to help the injured.
In the years since, there have been whitewash tribunals and extended inquiries, a hard-won state apology, and then, this July, the collapse of a long-awaited criminal investigation into
