1/ This is the BBC News Special broadcast on Sunday, 30th Jan 1972.
It is 11mins long so I've had to split it over several tweets
Part one #BloodySunday50
1 week before Bloody Sunday and the murder of 13 innocent people, General Ford (as above) was interviewed about the Brit army new strategy of stopping civil rights marches from happening. Gas canisters were fired by police and army.
As the ICJ case is today brought by South Africa against Israel for its genocide in Gaza, it feels kinda personally and politically relevant to the small part of Ireland I grew up in.
Two names.
Majella O'Hare and
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh
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Majella O'Hare was 12 years old, when she was shot in the back and murdered by a British paratrooper as she walked to confession in the church next to St Malachy's primary school.
The paras tried to blame the IRA, and threatened and intimidate those who went to aid Majella
Twitter seems to have dropped the rest of the entire thread, I'll come back to it later
Hassling and intimidating journalists and working crew is an increasing part of far right tactics. It's not accidental but deliberate and planned. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Getting solid information that neo nazi Sam Brittenden from New Zealand is intending to come to Ireland to join far-right religious cult SSPX Resistance based in West Cork.
This neo nazi should not be allowed into the country.
And the SSPX Resistance cult need to be broken up
Neonazi Sam is a member of Action Zealandia, an accelerationist group in New Zealand that has plotted white nationalist terrorism.
Again Brittenden should be refused entry into Ireland.
Brittenden was arrested after threats were made to mosques in Christchurch, previously targetted by white supremacist Brenton Harrison Tarrant killing 51 people. Threats were made at the one year anniversary of that massacre.
"Far-right thugs, templar twats, cocaine dealers, violent ex-cons with gangland connections, conspiracy theorists, and political wannabes all turn up for these men-only walks organised by Dwyer"