Bloody Sunday: 50 Years On
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What Happened to the Parra Troopers?
We concluded that two members of the official i r a had gone to a previously lected sniping point to have a go at the soldiers with a pretty decrepit rifle. The next three shots came just after four o'clock, after wilford had deployed his troops into the bog side and scattering both marchers and rioters. In fact, these were warning shots fired by a para officer known as lieutenant n lord savill. All those shots suggested to the parras that the warnings they had been given about sniper fire were coming true. By half past four, the parras had fired over a hundred rounds and shot dead 13 innocent civil rights marchers. None wer supposing any
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