The launch of an exhibition by the families of “The Disappeared” is one of a number of being held to mark the 42nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
Gerry Conlon,
The annual Bloody Sunday “March For Justice” will take place on Sunday 2 February next.
The march will leave Creggan Shops at 2.30pm and make its way along the route of the original January 1972 parade to Free Derry Corner where those present will be addressed by a number of prominent speakers.
The march will be the culmination of a programme of events that will include talks, panel discussions and film screenings.
The programme was launched today by a panel chaired by Bernadette McAlskey that included Gerry Conlon, one of the “Guildford 4,” and Liam Wray whose brother Jim was murdered on Bloody Sunday.
Among the events organised to mark the 42nd anniversary of the killings, will be the launch of an exhibition by the families of “The Disappeared” in Pilot’s Row on Monday 27 January.
A film screening in the Nerve Centre on Thursday 30 January will detail the activities British army’s “Military Reaction Force,” a secret unit operating in Belfast in 1973.
The following evening, Friday 31 January, Professor of Criminology at Queen’s University in Belfast Phil Scraton will deliver a talk on the extent of the British state’s cover-up of responsibility for the Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster in 1989.
The first of two panel discussions in Pilot’s Row on Saturday 1 February will explore the different approaches to dealing with the violent acts perpetrated in the course of the conflict.
The second will give voice to a range of contemporary campaigns for social and environmental justice including, Shell to Sea (Co. Mayo) and opposition to Fracking (Leitrim and Fermanagh) as well as opposition to the so called “Austerity Cuts” on both sides of the border.
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