51 years ago today...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

...British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)

Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers, and some were shot while trying to help the wounded....Other protesters were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, or batons, two were run down by British Army vehicles, and some were beaten....The march had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to protest against internment without trial. The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment ( "1 Para" ), the same battalion implicated in the Ballymurphy massacre several months before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballymurphy_massacre

[Woodswalker]

1. I can see why there's no love loss from my Irish friends for the British

[sanatanadharma]

2. About twice as many years before Ireland, in India the British were brutish

"The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, aka the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab,..." Wikipedia link

After blocking the (only) exit from the enclosed area, troops shot at the crowd, firing until their ammunition was exhausted.
Estimates of those killed vary between 379 and 1500people with over 1,200 injured.