The incident that most damaged the relationship between the British Army and the Catholic community was " Bloody Sunday " , 30 January 1972 . During an anti-internment march in Derry , 26 unarmed Catholic protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers from the 1st Battalion , Parachute Regiment ; fourteen died . Some were shot from behind or while trying to help the wounded . The Widgery Tribunal largely cleared the soldiers of blame , but it was regarded as a " whitewash " by the Catholic community . A second inquiry , the Saville Inquiry , concluded in 2010 that the killings were " unjustified and unjustifiable "
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Bloody Sunday (1972)
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