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Article: Hume says he feared British soldiers would attack Catholic protesters on Bloody Sunday
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- January 21, 2002
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Dateline: LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland
Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Hume, a leader of Northern Ireland'
s early Catholic civil rights movement, testified Monday that he feared
British troops would attack demonstrators on what became "Bloody Sunday"
nearly 30 years ago.
Hume, testifying to a long-running investigation into the massacre,
said he decided not to attend the Jan. 30, 1972 demonstration in
Londonderry because British troops had already attacked another small
march that he had led the week before on a Northern Ireland beach.
"If they were firing rubber bullets and gas on a beach where there
could not be any form of violence," Hume said, ...