Д«loody Sunday came to be regarded as one of the most significant events of the Troubles because so many civilians were killed by forces of the state, in view of the public and the press. One former soldier was charged with murder, but the case was dropped two years later when evidence was deemed inadmissible.

Following this, police began a murder investigation into the killings. On publication of the report, British Prime Minister David Cameron formally apologised. The soldiers denied shooting the named victims but also denied shooting anyone by mistake. It found that all of those shot were unarmed, that none were posing a serious threat, that no bombs were thrown and that soldiers 'knowingly put forward false accounts' to justify their firing. Following a twelve-year investigation, Saville's report was made public in 2010 and concluded that the killings were 'unjustified' and 'unjustifiable'. The Saville Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in 1998 to reinvestigate the incident much more thoroughly. The report was widely criticised as a ' whitewash'. It described some of the soldiers' shooting as 'bordering on the reckless', but accepted their claims that they shot at gunmen and bomb-throwers. The Widgery Tribunal, held in the aftermath, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame. Two investigations were held by the British government. The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment ('1 Para'), the same battalion implicated in the Ballymurphy massacre several months before. The march had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to protest against internment without trial. Other protesters were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, or batons, two were run down by British Army vehicles, and some were beaten. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers, and some were shot while trying to help the wounded. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. See also: The Troubles in Britain & Europe and Assassinations during the TroublesД«loody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.

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