[News] Bloody Sunday - Soldier to be prosecuted

[AmexRuislip]

Mmmmmm......and whatabout the potato famine? I am inclined to agree with the quizzical replies above. Killing unarmed civilians cannot be 'balanced' by anything, if this was your point. That sort of reasoning justifies anything. And let's not forget, from what old people have told me about how British forces behaved in India, Kenya and Malaysia, killing civilians in oder to get the locals to behave is a long tradition in our forces (of old). Hopefully no more. Partly because of bloody Sunday. Sorry.

Evening Mike, no not condoning killing civilians at all.
Main point is in support of the military lives that have been curtailed and will never really get a mention

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Evening Mike, no not condoning killing civilians at all.
Main point is in support of the military lives that have been curtailed and will never really get a mention

Sure, that's fine. Maybe a separate thread, though?

 

[The Clamp]

Evening Mike, no not condoning killing civilians at all.
Main point is in support of the military lives that have been curtailed and will never really get a mention

For some balance, those who join the military are aware there is a chance they could be killed* It goes with the job. People marching and protesting in the U.K. do not and should not expect to be fired upon and killed.








*It doesn’t mean their deaths are not tragic and horrific.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Having worked in London in the early 1980's for a company who's security staff were entirely made up of ex serviceman I did get a very small snapshot of 1970's Ulster.

Bloody Sunday was one day in a over nearly three decades of conflict, what happened was horrendous, but what happened nearly every other day of the troubles was equally horrific, our Troops were there at the request of the then Northern Irish Government protecting citizens of the United Kingdom, whether their detractors like it or not, doing their jobs.

They say the victor always gets to write the history books, unfortunately there were no winners in any of this.