Sunday Bloody Sunday

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

• Artist U2

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Bloody Sunday

• January 30, 1972
• On January 30, 1972, soldiers from the British
  Army's 1st Parachute Regiment opened fire on
  unarmed and peaceful civilian demonstrators in
  the Bogside, Derry, Ireland, near the Rossville
  flats, killing 13 and wounding a number of
  others. One wounded man later died from illness
  attributed to that shooting.
• The march, which was called to protest
  internment, was "illegal" according to British
  government authorities. Internment without trial
  was introduced by the British government on
  August 9, 1971.
• The British-government-appointed Widgery Tribunal
  found soldiers were not guilty of shooting dead
  the 13 civilians in cold blood.

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• I can't believe the news today
• Oh, I can't close my eyes, and make it go away
• How long... How long must we sing this song?
• How long? How long...
• cause tonight...we can be as onetonight...
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• Broken bottles under children's feet
• Bodies strewn across the dead end street
• But I won't heed the battle call, it puts my back
  up
• Puts my back up against the wall
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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• And the battle's just begun
• There's many lost, but tell me who has won
• The trench is dug within our hearts
• And mothers, children, brothers, sisters,torn
  apart
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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• How long... How long must we sing this song?
• How long? How long...
• cause tonight...we can be as one
  tonight...tonight... 
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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• Wipe the tears from your eyesWipe your tears
  away
• Oh, wipe your tears awayOh, wipe your tears away
• (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
• Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes
• (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
• (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
• (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

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• And it's true we are immune
• When fact is fiction and TV reality
• And today the millions cry
• We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
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• (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
• The real battle just begun
• To claim the victory Jesus won on...
• Sunday Bloody Sunday
• Sunday Bloody Sunday...

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The British IslesA Connection of Crisis

• British Isles consist of 2 countries
• United Kingdom
• Great Britain (England, Scotland Wales)
• Northern Ireland (N. most portion of the island
  of Ireland

• Ireland (remainder of the island of Ireland)

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The Troubles

• N. Ireland
• Part of the UK
• Majority British protestant
• Minority Irish Catholic, who want to be part of
  the Republic of Ireland

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• 1949 Ireland wins independence from the U.K.,
  but Ulster (6 northern counties) remains part of
  the U.K.

• 1960s Groups organize to fight British
• treatment of Catholic minorities
  which
• erupted into violent clashes.

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• Irish Republican Army (IRA) Sinn Fein
• formed
• The IRA is a terrorist group of Irish minorities
• in N. Ireland.
• Sinn Fein is a political group often associated
• with the IRA

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• Protestants retaliate with violence (often
• this includes the U.K.s military)
• Violence continues into the 1990s (1000s have
  been killed)
• 1994 Cease-fire declared by the IRA peace
  negotiations begin, but later collapse

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• 1998 Good Friday Agreement signed
• Created a joint Irish/Catholic
  British/Protestant legislature
• U.K. scales back military

• 13 weeks later fighting breaks out, many
• killed

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• 2000 Clinton travels to N. Ireland to
• mediate support in restoring the agreement
• The joint legislature remains, but sporadic
  fighting still occurs
• From 1996-99 alone, 3,636 killed 36,000 injured
  (most innocent civilians)