Thirteen people were shot dead and several others injured during a civil rights demonstration in 1972.
However, Army barricades blocked marchers.Image caption,After prolonged skirmishes between groups of youths and the Army, soldiers from the Parachute Regiment moved in to make arrests.
The day after Bloody Sunday the government announced there would be an inquiry led by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery.The victims, top row : Patrick Doherty, Gerald Donaghey, John Duddy, Hugh Gilmour, Michael Kelly, Michael McDaid and Kevin McElhinney. Bottom row : Bernard McGuigan, Gerard McKinney, William McKinney, William Nash, James Wray and John Young
It was set up in 1998 and reported back in 2010, becoming the longest-running inquiry in British legal history and costing about £200m. Saville found there was "some firing by republican paramilitaries" but that on balance the Army fired first.PacemakerDerry's Guildhall Square was packed for David Cameron's apology on behalf of the state in 2010The Police Service of Northern Ireland began a murder investigation after the Saville report was released.
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