Talk:Bloody Sunday (1920)
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The following comments were moved from Talk:Bloody Sunday. Originally posted November 2002.
- An anonymous user wrote the following on Bloody Sunday (Ireland 1920):
- It wasn't by the IRA, and it was the night before
- apparently referring to the following text on this page.
- following a series of assassinations of British agents carried out by the Irish Republican Army earlier that day.
- Well, 'earlier that day' and 'the night before' aren't really contradictory. And investigation suggests that nobody contests that it was the IRA.
This is a pretty good summary of the 1920 Bloody Sunday with one very notable exception. The author emphasizes the "unathorized" and "unapproved" nature of atrocities committed by the Black & Tans and Auxiliaries. In actuality, however, these terrorists acted under the full authority of the British government for over 2 years. They were sent to Ireland by His Majesty's Government to terrorize the Irish population into submission. They did not engage in a single terrorist act (Bloody Sunday), they engaged in thousands, killing and brutalizing at random and also in carefully targeted operations. To claim that British Crown Forces could engage in illegal terrorist activities non-stop on a daily and even hourly basis for over 2 years without approval not only challenges the imagination but denies the existence of any semblance of a chain of command within the British Army. As the English themselves would say, "Not bloody likely." In short, this was state-sponsored terrorism of the first order.
- I don't know anything about this subject, but "the author" (you reffered to) is you, be bold, click the "edit this page" and try to put it into the text, if you think your suggestions are more accurate and factual. Other users will review this (soon), don't worry. --Rotem Dan 04:22 21 May 2003 (UTC)
- But please cite wherever you can (give a solid basis for statements presented) -- Rotem Dan 04:25 21 May 2003 (UTC)
Hey, I'm a big history buff and I recall hearing something about a bloody riot in the 1950's in Hungry being called 'Bloody Sunday'. Russian soldiers sent to quell the riot killed a whole bunch of people. Is this true?
-E. Brown 5 February 2005
About how many people do we think were killed on Bloody Sunday? The article says that 10,000 spectators were there, surely they weren't all killed.
