Ballymurphy Massacre, British Army (Parachute Regiment)
A series of fatal shootings occurred in Belfast’s Ballymurphy neighborhood, during the British Army’s controversial mass ‘internment’ arrests across Catholic districts. Killing 11 innocent civilians including a Catholic Priest, it was regarded as Belfast’s “Bloody Sunday” which occurred in Derry 5 months later. The Inquest Coroner’s Report in 2021 judged the killings to be “without justification” and formalized the victims’ innocence. British PM Johnson subsequently apologized to local NI politicians but not publicly nor to the victims’ families.