Officer ordered Derry march to be stopped
A senior British army officer in Northern Ireland 31 years ago decided that the civil rights march that led to the Bloody Sunday killings should be stopped “at all costs“, it emerged today.
A confidential operation order for January 30, 1972 said that people from the Catholic Creggan and Bogside areas of Derry and others nearby were planning to march illegally to the city centre.
