Ballymurphy Massacre was a series of incidents between 9 and 11 August 1971 , in which the 1st Battalion , Parachute Regiment of the British Army killed eleven civilians in Ballymurphy , Belfast , Northern Ireland , as part of Operation Demetrius . The shootings were later referred to as Belfast 's Bloody Sunday , a reference to the killing of civilians by the same battalion in Derry a few months later
killing of civilians by the same battalion
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Ballymurphy massacre