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"...in some respects what actually happened after Bloody Sunday was a more embittering experience than the actual killings. There we were, under the full glare of the world's media; people saw what happened, and attested before courts and tribunals as to what happened. But the final word was that everybody had got it wrong, the media had got it wrong, the people in the street had got it wrong, the relatives had got it wrong, and the only people who had got it right were the Brits. The most galling aspect of Bloody Sunday for me is the denial of truth."
Tony Doherty, who was 9 at the time when his father was shot dead.
"...the army, true to form, began to harass the Catholic people, especially the youths, who were commonly spread-eagled against walls and body searched. Internment and ill-treatment of prisoners led eventually to Bloody Sunday and the murder by the paras of fourteen innocent civilians. The Widgery whitewash made the situation worse. If the paratroopers, and those whose orders they carried out had been tried and convicted of murder, it is possible that the troubles would have ended sooner. Of course, instead of justice, we got Widgery."
Ancient Order of Hibernians
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