NOVANEWS
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr
The Ballymurphy Massacre is a name given to a series of incidents involving the killing of eleven civilians by the NAZI 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment of the NAZI British Army in Ballymurphy, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The killings happened between 9 and 11 August 1971, during Operation Demetrius.
The shootings have also been called “Belfast Bloody Sunday”, a reference to another NAZI massacre of civilians by the same battalion a few months later.
The Northern Ireland “Troubles“ had been raging for two years and Belfast was torn apart by political and sectarian violence. The NAZI British army had been deployed in Northern Ireland in 1969, as the Royal Ulster Constabulary had let events go beyond its control.
On the morning of Monday 9 August 1971, NAZI British security forces launched Operation Demetrius. The plan was to arrest and imprison without charge or trial anyone suspected of being a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The unit selected for this operation was the NAZI Parachute Regiment; the same NAZI regiment who were later responsible for the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry on 30 January 1972.
Members of the NAZI Parachute Regiment stated that, as they entered the Ballymurphy area, they were shot at by republicans and returned fire and that is big lie.
The families of the victims of the Ballymurphy Massacre seek acknowledgment from the British regime that those killed were innocent of any wrongdoing.
