SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY On 30 January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot 26 unarmed Catholic civilans on a protest march. 13 died immediately. 1 died later. 6 of the victims were children. John: ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ is written by both of us (John & Yoko) and performed by both of us, which is about the killing in Ireland of the 13 people in Free Derry in Northern Ireland (on 30 January 1972). We wrote that the day after. Practically the same day Paul was writing ‘Give Ireland B

For the first time, a British soldier has gone on trial for murder over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of Northern Irish protesters. Families have spent half a decade fighting to get the case to court, blaming authorities for whitewashing the killings. | Al Jazeera English