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meeting, a few hundred marchers stayed at the army barricades protesting against the refusal to allow march Stones thrown and the army replied with CS gas. followed with water cannon ic disperse the small crowd.
At 4.15pm crowd, fleeing from the gas and water, were running or walking Rossville Street towards the mass meeting.
companies of the ist swept into the street in armoured cars and were hastily deployed into firing positions. The order to open fire and thousands witnessed in disbelief the killing and the wounding of unarmed civilians.
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Socialist Challenge even one injured soldier to suppor The British said were on theit some of those shot wanted list but did not name them, and this was later disproved. They said they shot three snipers in the multi-storey flats in Rossville Street but all the casualties were at ground No definitive version of what happened can yet be written. Some people argue that the massacre was a result of an army plan to draw out the IRA from the barricaded ghetto, ambush, and eliminate their units.
Others say the army went berserk though it is inconceivable that rigidly disciplined paratroopers would lose their heads at the sight of an unarmed crowd running away from their gas and water cannon. The army story virtually no supporters outside the military establishment itself. In however of those in that day will, when has elapsed, speak out and tell the truth.
Resistance perhaps in the last analysis is not necessary.
Phe massacre was consistent with the stands incontrovertibly entire role of the British army to terrorise and break the resistance of the minority community and to placate the growing strength of the Loyalist THE graphic in last week's Socialist Challenge on H Block was taken from a new magazine/ poster produced by the Troops Out Movement.
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