Bogside

Sometimes called the Bogside Massacre, so named for the region of Derry in which the killings took place, the tragedies occurred during a march by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

Just under a mile away from the Bogside is the Fountain Estate.

Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE 2009

I do believe we have a serious situation here, there's quite a large number of youths gathered in the Bogside.

Pipe bomb thrown at police in Derry 2011

That chilly Sunday afternoon I took cover behind a rubble barricade in the Bogside district of Londonderry while members of the British Army's crack Parachute Regiment fired a total of 108 high-velocity rounds that killed 13 members of a demonstrating crowd instantly, and injured more than a dozen others, one of whom died within a few months.

David Tereshchuk: Struggle Through Decades to Overturn Massacre Lies David Tereshchuk 2012

It comprises photographs of the sky over some of the province's best-known trouble spots: Andersonstown, Ballymurphy, the Bogside and the Shankill Road.

Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether' 2011

The question now is whether this latest and still more dreadful Bogside tragedy will set in train such another series of profound events.

From the archive, 1 February 1972: Derry's Bloody Sunday 2012

That chilly Sunday afternoon I took cover behind a rubble barricade in the Bogside district of Londonderry while members of the British Army's crack Parachute Regiment fired a total of 108 high-velocity rounds that killed 13 members of a demonstrating crowd instantly, and injured more than a dozen others, one of whom died within a few months.

David Tereshchuk: Struggle Through Decades to Overturn Massacre Lies David Tereshchuk 2012

It takes us right up to the point where Support Company have been deployed into the Bogside, contrary to the orders given to Colonel Wilford; and incidentally exposes his and his superior officers '"inaccurate and misleading information" on precisely what those orders were.

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Four masked men fire shots at building in Bogside area and then attack police with petrol bombs and missiles

Northern Ireland police investigate fatal shooting 2011

He failed to communicate adequately either with his superiors or with his own troops, in the hopes of staging a spectaularly successful arrest operation in the Bogside to show the softies who normally patrolled Derry how it should be done, and as a direct result 14 people died.

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