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35th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday March, Derry.
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Wednesday January 31, 2007 12:16 by Paula Geraghty / Shaner mspgeraghty at yahoo dot ie
Thousands gathered in the Creggan, in Derry, Northern Ireland last Sunday to commemorate the murder of civilians by British Paratroopers in 1972. The vote by Sinn Féin to accept the Northern police was expected, but not unanimously welcome. Anonymous grafitti and a protest banner unfurled during the speeches signalled the disquiet with Sinn Féin's new departure. However, much of the anti-Sinn Féin grafitti had been obscured overnight while Martina Anderson, the Sinn Féin speaker at the rally, said that Sinn Fein's new role would act a check on the PSNI, holding them accountable.
There was an all female platform of invited speakers including a representative from SF, SDLP, Maura Harrington of the Shell to Sea Campaign and the Davitt League and Jamilla Asleh, who's son was killed by Israeli military |
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some pictures to add to the above, including ones of the bluebell arts initiative were different people and groups were asked to nominate unsung heroes. These pictures were (for the most part) put up along the march route.
Jackie Duddy, who was murdered on Bloody Sunday
Barney McGuigan, who was murdered on Bloody Sunday, along with his wife.
Gerard McKinney, who was murdered on Bloody Sunday
John Young, who was murdered on Bloody Sunday
William Nash, who was murdered on Bloody Sunday
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Asel Asleh, Palestinian citizen of Israel murdered in Oct 2000 by Israeli Police
John Johnson, murdered on Bloody Sunday, and his wife.
I can't believe it's not Caoimhe! With Kieran Gallagher and Colm Bryce of the Raytheon 9
Nominated by the Pat Finucane Centre; Rosemary Nelson, solicitor murdered by British State - loyalist pseudo-gang
Paddy Doherty, murdered on Bloody Sunday, with his wife
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Youth from Balata camp, Palestine. Nominated by Bluebell Arts.
Kevin McIlhinney, Murdered on Bloody Sunday
William McKinney, murdered on Bloody sunday
Dermie McClenaghan, with Colm, Kieran, young woman in white coat (sorry, I forgot her name) and Eamonn McCann, all of Raytheon 9 fame
Jim Wray (tallest at back), murdered on Bloody Sunday, McCartney brothers + youngfella
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Gerald Donaghy, who was murdered on Blody Sunday
FEIC nominee: Mary Ann McCracken. Abolitionist, social reformer, womens rights activist. Sister of '98er Henry Joy.
Bloody Sunday Trust nominee; Kate Nash.
Shell-chun-Saile nominee: Ken Saro Wiwa, writer, activist for the rights of Ogoni people against Shell Oil, executed by the Nigerian State.
Mairead Farrell, revolutionary leader, feminist, hunger striker, executed by the British State. Nominated by the Bogside & Brandywell Womens' group.
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Toussaint l'Ouverture. Republican leader of "Black Jacobins" slave revolution. Founding father of modern Haiti. Nominated by Anti Racist Network
8 days a week, the Raytheon 9 banner
Go n'eirigh an bothair linn, Eirigi set off on the route
Watching you watching me watching him, Stephen and Jim in front of Asel Asleh's portrait
The Thompson gang - my heroes - their mother Kathleen, an organiser and activist, was murdered by the British Army at their Creggan home.
Fine photo report, graet prints on walls of those murdered- powerfull stuff. Same battle, different places.
Ok so the portraits of Michael McDaid and of Mairtín Ó Cadháin weren't exactly on the march route ...
all photos by me are copyleft - if you want higher resolution copies, email me.
Michael McDaid, murdered on Bloody Sunday.
Ainmaithe ag an Gaeláras; Máirtín Ó Cadháin, gael, republican, socialist revolutionary.
deartháireacha ó Catalunya agus Euskal Herria
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Paula & Shaner: Good report & pics on an action which still needs to go on until what happened that Sunday is admitted.
The difference between the atrocities of the like committed on Bloody Sunday and other killings of civilians during the conflict, is that the people killed in Derry were peaceful protesters, attempting to sway government policy by the time honoured tradition of marching and making speeches, and their government responded by sending in assault troops to kill them.
The British government then blackened the names of the dead by saying they were criminals, terrorists and whatever, while the soldiers and officers who carried out the murders were promoted, rewarded, and presented with medals by the British Royal Family.
There is big difference in being killed by a terrorist bomb, and being killed by your own government. Taxes paid by those murdered had contributed to pay for the bullets which killed them. What do you call it when a government, instead of protecting its citizens, begins to murder them? We called it the end.
You should also bear in mind that many would argue that the extreme violence of the likes of the Birmingham bombing was only possible BECAUSE of Bloody Sunday.
In the USA , the government embraced the civil rights marchers and faced down the bigoted local politicians of the Southern states. The British government did the opposite, supporting the bigots and the murderers and destroying the idea of marching for civil rights in Ireland by shooting it off the streets in Derry.