[tom8517]

one of the reasons bloody Sunday wont go away was it was the parachute regiment that did the shooting, they had already established a reputation for brutality that exceeded the other regiments. The paras were, and are an elite force, trained to a razors edge. they are not policemen, peace keepers, or social workers. The paras were trained to kill people and break things, they should never have been deployed in a role like that. This was a serious failure in judgement by the British government.

Bloody Sunday was the reason the IRA targeted them in the Narrow Water ambush. In the IRA's single most successful military operation 18 British soldiers, 16 of them of them of the Parachute regiment were killed at the border by Newry.