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Article: More than 10,000 retrace steps of 1972 march that became Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
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- February 3, 2002
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Dateline: LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland
More than 10,000 Roman Catholics on Sunday retraced the path of a
1972 march that produced one of Northern Ireland's worst atrocities,
when British soldiers killed 13 demonstrators in bitterly disputed
circumstances.
Despite icy winds and showers of rain, the crowd marched for more
than an hour through the Catholic west side of Londonderry for the
30th anniversary commemoration of Bloody Sunday, Jan. 20, 1972, when
paratroopers opened fire on panicked crowds protesting against the
internment without trial of Irish Republican Army suspects.
Speakers told Sunday's gathering that a British government-authorized
investigation under ...