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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Rewatched Jin-Roh: Wolf Brigade (I read that the kanji for WB literally translates to Werewolf) and A Silent Voice this evening. I remember the ending to Jin-Roh devastating me when I first watched it. I think I finally understand what actually happens in it plot-wise and also the backstory about a parallel-but-still-effectively-fascist post-war Japan, just more influenced by Germany than the US. I still didn't like how ham-fisted the Red Riding Hood theming was, they just repeat it over and over and over. Also I remember talking to someone and they thought the WB were supposed to be a marxist officers' rebellion of a secret police squad based on the October revolution but I'm pretty sure they're just fascists. Like, they're literally described and self-describing as wolves or beasts or monsters that may temporarily wear human skin, it repeats this a lot, and it seems like they're just trying to survive for their own sake and the main character Fuse finds the fascist military/cop structure too comfortable to rebel against it even if he's fallen in love with a leftist rebel. Animation was as fucking amazing as I remember, it's so fucking good. Like, those suits are being animated as odd angels going up and down stairs at extremely smooth frame rates perfectly. It looks rotoscoped during a lot of it despite not being so.
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A Silent Voice: I didn't actually like it as much the first time I saw it. I definitely liked it (had a 7/10 rating on MAL from me), but I think the way it handles suicide and bullying felt too contrived. I also don't think I appreciated the excellent music and audio the first time since I'm pretty sure I watched it late-night on a laptop, probably a medium-quality Kissanime stream (R.I.P.). I haven't' read the manga but the way it kinda' slaps suicide attempts into things makes me think maybe the manga explained that more, it still felt too convenient to have it plotted out the way it did at the end where every problem is neatly fixed. I actually think it did a good job showing some of the group dynamics and the gradations of bullying though: there's a girl who's actively tormenting her due to ableism and not being able to cope with someone who can't communicate how she wants to be communicated with, there's the boy who's doing it to fit into the hierarchy of his friends, there's the prissy girl who's more passive and mostly talks behind her back a little while, there's the other boy who's encouraging other people to bully her because he likes the outcomes of bullying but doesn't do it himself. And at least he's totally not vindicated and the active-harasser girl first mentioned is like half-vindicated by it, so it's not totally contrived in that way at least. Also felt mostly respectful in regards to not using Sho's (bullied girl) disability as like pity fodder, I'd say her fault is more so his moe-ness and personality that makes it hard to sympathize not because she's unlikeable but because she's so outwardly sweet and kind that she comes off cartoonishly unrealistic.