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Bloody Sunday March Committee ⚑ We are proud to announce our 2024 Programme which focuses on two connected themes: Palestine and the ongoing campaign for truth and justice in the six counties.
We have always featured the issue of Palestine in our annual programmes and it is with great sadness that we do so again in 2024.

Our love, solidarity and anguish remain with the people of Gaza and the West Bank and with the families and comrades of those murdered, assaulted and lied about by the British state. Injustice is everywhere, but so is the resistance. You're all part of that resistance too.

No pasarán.


 

















⏩Keep up with the Bloody Sunday March Committee.

Bloody Sunday March Committee Programme Of Events 2024

Bloody Sunday March Committee ✊ Crowds will assemble again at the Creggan shops on January 29th for the 51st annual Bloody Sunday march.

Back then, nobody expected that the trek towards the truth would take so long. But too late to stop now. We can’t leave the Bloody Sunday story unfinished.

If we were to do as we’re told and stop pushing for the full truth, Britain’s rulers would heave a huge sigh of relief, believing they’d gotten away with murder. We owe it to the victims, and to victims of imperialism everywhere, not to flinch or falter now.

It is not true that Bloody Sunday was perpetrated by an undisciplined, unrepresentative bunch of brutes in Parachute Regiment uniforms. The murder spree was ordered and orchestrated by the top brass of the British army in connivance with the Tory government of the day.

Nobody now would dare suggest that the massacre at Sétif and Guelma in Algeria in May 1945, or at My Lai in Vietnam in March 1968, or at Bucha in Ukraine in March last year, could be explained by reference to out-of-control members of the French or American or Russian armies.

In all these instances, as on Bloody Sunday, the men who pulled the triggers were doing what they’d been ordered to do by their political and military masters. The murders were done in service of the State.

This is the truth which history must be made to record. The British ruling class wants to tell the world that Bloody Sunday may have been a terrible event - but it’s all sorted now, no need to be rude to the Royals or their Empire anymore.

The Bloody Sunday March Committee takes a different view. We march for all those everywhere who have lost family and friends and had their children’s hopes of happiness shattered by the armoured cars and tanks and guns of imperial armies.

It would be putting it a bit strong to say that the truth will set us free. But without the truth about Bloody Sunday we will never be free of the terrible legacy the massacre left for Derry and the world.



A full programme of events has been organised for the week beginning Monday 23th January 2023.

There are two pages through which you can find details of all the events:

Keep up with the Bloody Sunday March Committee.

Bloody Sunday March For Justice 2023

Bloody Sunday March Committee ✒ Press Release

Commenting on the recent case in Germany and the sentencing of a former Nazi concentration camp guard, the Bloody Sunday March Committee’s Betty Doherty said:

The Tories in Britain argue there’s no point charging British soldiers for killings during the conflict because it was all too long ago. The chance of convictions was “vanishingly small”, NI Minister Brandon Lewis told the Commons this week during a debate on the Tory “amnesty” Bill.

This week also, a 101-year-old former concentration camp guard was convicted of involvement in 3,500 murders at the Sachsenhausen camp between 1942 and 1945. “We go by the simple principle that murder does not have a statute of limitations,” prosecutor Thomas Will told the court in Brandenburg.

The defendant was sentenced to five years. "Whether he serves the sentence isn't as important as making a formal declaration of the truth," said Mr. Will.

Ms Doherty continued:

There are seven other cases pending in Germany against alleged war criminals from the 1940s. One is a 97-year old woman. The prosecution authorities have made it clear that the pursuit of the war criminals will continue until all who remain are brought to justice.

If the German State can face up to crimes committed in its name 75 years ago, the British State should be made to come clean about its own more recent crimes here.

Ms Doherty Concluded,

The Bloody Sunday March Committee strongly believes and holds the view that the relatives and supporters of the victims of the British State are entitled to insist on German levels of justice.

‘Murder Does Not Have A Statute Of Limitations’

Marty Flynn responds to a critique of him carried in the Belfast Telegraph on the 14th February.

In response to an interview with Helen Deery carried in the Belfast Telegraph 

Trolling ... The Facts

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