Summary Bloody Sunday-what happens?

What happens

On 30 January 1972, 13 people were killed  The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

About 10,000 people gather in Creggan area to protest. The Stormont government had banned such protests.

Army barricades block marchers from the centre.  Two men are shot and wounded.

What happened next

The events of Bloody Sunday caused shock and revulsion across the world. In Dublin, a crowd of protesters burnt the British Embassy.

Some young people who had previously regarded themselves as non-political joined the IRA.

Two months after Bloody Sunday, the Stormont parliament which had ruled Northern Ireland since its creation in the 1920s was suspended and direct rule from London was imposed.

It also concluded the soldiers had been fired upon first and some of the victims had handled weapons, despite evidence from witnesses who said the victims were unarmed civilians.

The Catholic community rejected these findings