Friday, October 5, 2018

A decisive day in Derry that changed Northern Ireland

Today is the 50th anniversary of the RUC in Derry violently suppressing a civil rights march.
At least 30 people, including the then MP Gerry Fitt and some children, were injured.

 Police tried to disperse the protesters by using their batons indiscriminately and spraying water from hoses on armoured trucks.

 The demonstrators retaliated with petrol bombs. A number of bonfires were lit in the Bogside area and when a fire engine arrived, the crowd turned on it and threatened to set it alight.

 Things would never be the same again in Northern Ireland after that day in Derry.
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