U2’s Bono and the Edge have shared a new acoustic version of their 1983 single and War album opener “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” It arrives on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the massacre at a protest in Northern Ireland and a defining moment of the Troubles.
In Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators are shot dead by British Army paratroopers in an event that becomes known as “Bloody Sunday.” The protesters, all Northern Catholics, were marching in protest of the British policy of internment of suspected Irish nationalists. British authorities had ordered the march banned, and sent troops to confront the demonstrators when it went ahead. The soldiers fired indiscriminately into the crowd of protesters, killing 13 and wounding 17.
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