Bloody Sunday, also known as the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre of Irish anti-internment protesters by the British government that took place on this day in 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.
Bloody Sunday resulted in the highest number of people killed in a shooting incident during the Troubles and remains the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history. This violence was in response to a protest organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in opposition to a state policy of internment without trial, introduced in August of 1971.
On January 18th, 1972, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner banned all parades and marches in response to widespread civil unrest. The protest march was organized despite this order.
On the day of the protest, approximately 10,000-15,000 joined the march, however their path was blocked by British Army barriers. The protest descended into chaos, with British soldiers chasing down protesters and attacking them indiscriminately. 26 people were shot, 14 were killed. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers or attending to the wounded, while others were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, batons, or being ran down by army vehicles.
The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion Parachute Army, which had perpetrated the Ballymurphy Massacre just months prior. The events of Bloody Sunday greatly increased hostilities between Northern Ireland and the British government. Support for and recruitment by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) rose following the massacre.
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I don't mean to start a long argument on this, so I'll just say my piece and then quietly go away. I'm not vegan because I'm basically at the end of my psychological rope in real life. I simply don't have the mental energy to care about the issue one way or the other. I'm not proud of that fact. But it is a fact. There's so much other crap going on in my life that drains my energy, that I just can't be bothered to take a detailed look into the entire production chain of every single thing that goes into or onto my body. I can barely maintain the energy to hold down a job.
yea and i didnt mean it against you. i specifically meant those who brag about how cool they are for eating meat.
Yeah, that always weirds me out. I work with a few people like that. They are in dreadful health.
I have made some dietary changes in a better direction. Cutting out all meat that comes from mammals, switching to oat milk (which I genuinely prefer the taste of over dairy milk), having a lot more steamed veggies, opting for vegetarian or vegan meals when eating out, etc. But I can't pretend that I'm dong it for principled reasons. It's basically 50/50 financial/health reasons.