John Hume gives evidence to Bloody Sunday inquiry

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate John Hume spoke today of his dread for the march which turned into Bloody Sunday after a confrontation with troops a week earlier.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate John Hume spoke today of his dread for the march which turned into Bloody Sunday after a confrontation with troops a week earlier.

Foyle MP Mr Hume said he stayed away from the anti-internment march of January 30 1972 - which ended with 13 people shot dead - after Paratroopers opened fire with CS gas and rubber bullets during another civil rights meeting at Magilligan Strand, Co Derry, seven days before.

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