Porque nunca esqueceremos este crime - hoje foi dia de recordar um domingo sangrento...

 

Sunday, bloody Sunday - U2

 

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away

   

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight, we can be as one
Tonight

   

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall

  

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Alright, let's go!

  

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me, who has won?
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart

  

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

  

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long?
'Cause tonight, we can be as one
Tonight, tonight

  

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday (tonight, tonight)
Come get some!

  

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your bloodshot eyes

  

(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday

  

(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Alright, let's go!

  

And it's true, we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today, the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow, they die
The real battle just begun (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
To claim the victory Jesus won (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
On

 

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

Hoje é dia de recordar um domingo sangrento...

 

Sunday, bloody Sunday - U2

 

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away

   

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight, we can be as one
Tonight

   

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall

  

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Alright, let's go!

  

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me, who has won?
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart

  

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

  

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long?
'Cause tonight, we can be as one
Tonight, tonight

  

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday (tonight, tonight)
Come get some!

  

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your bloodshot eyes

  

(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday

  

(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Alright, let's go!

  

And it's true, we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today, the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow, they die
The real battle just begun (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
To claim the victory Jesus won (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
On

 

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

 

Bono Vox - 62 anos

   

Paul David Hewson (Dublin, 10 de maio de 1960), mais conhecido por seu nome artístico Bono é um cantor e músico irlandês vocalista principal da banda de rock irlandesa U2. Bono nasceu e cresceu em Dublin, na Irlanda, onde conheceu a sua esposa, Alison Stewart, e os membros dos U2. Bono escreve todas as letras da banda, muitas vezes usando temas sociais, religiosos e políticos. Durante os seus primeiros anos, as letras de Bono contribuíram para o tom espiritual e rebeldia dos U2. Conforme a banda amadureceu, as suas letras tornaram-se mais inspiradas por experiências pessoais, compartilhadas com os restantes membros da banda.

Fora da banda, colaborou e gravou com vários artistas, faz parte da direção da Elevation Partners, e possui um hotel, o The Clarence Hotel, em Dublin, em conjunto com The Edge. Bono também é amplamente conhecido pelo seu ativismo relativos a África, para o qual co-fundou DATA, EDUN, a ONE Campaign e Product Red. Organizou e tocou em vários shows beneficentes e se reuniu com políticos influentes. Bono tem sido elogiado e criticado por seu ativismo e envolvimento com o U2. Foi nomeado para o prémio Nobel da Paz, foi concedido um honorário cavaleiro pela rainha Rainha Elizabeth II, e foi nomeado como "Personalidade do Ano" pela revista Time, conquistando muitos outros prémios e nomeações.

  

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Hoje é dia de recordar um estúpido e vergonhoso domingo sangrento...

 

Sunday, bloody Sunday - U2

 

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away

   

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight, we can be as one
Tonight

   

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall

  

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Alright, let's go!

  

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me, who has won?
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart

  

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

  

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long?
'Cause tonight, we can be as one
Tonight, tonight

  

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday (tonight, tonight)
Come get some!

  

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your bloodshot eyes

  

(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday

  

(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Alright, let's go!

  

And it's true, we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today, the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow, they die
The real battle just begun (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
To claim the victory Jesus won (Sunday, bloody Sunday)
On

 

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

Sunday, Bloody Sunday...

O Domingo Sangrento foi há 48 anos

O Padre Edward Daly (futuro Bispo de Derry) com a bandeira branca manchada de sangue, tentando levar Jackie Duddy, ferido de morte

      

Domingo Sangrento (em gaélico: Domhnach na Fola, Bloody Sunday, em inglês) foi um confronto entre manifestantes católicos e protestantes, e o exército inglês ocorrido na cidade de Derry, na Irlanda do Norte, no dia 30 de janeiro de 1972. O movimento teve início com um protesto de dez mil manifestantes que pretendiam, saindo do bairro de Creggan em marcha pelas ruas católicas da cidade, chegar até a Câmara Municipal. Antes disso, entretanto, os soldados ingleses partiram para ofensiva e disparam contra os manifestantes, deixando 14 ativistas católicos mortos e 26 feridos.

Das catorze vítimas mortas, seis eram menores de idade e um sétimo ferido faleceu meses depois do incidente. Todas as vítimas estavam desarmadas e cinco delas foram alvejadas pelas costas. Os manifestantes protestavam contra a política do governo norte-irlandês de prender sumariamente pessoas suspeitas de atos terroristas. O incidente, que entrou para a história da ilha, era para apoiar o Exército Republicano Irlandês, o IRA, uma organização clandestina que lutava pela separação da Irlanda do Norte da Grã-Bretanha e posterior união com a República da Irlanda. Após o "Domingo Sangrento", o IRA ganhou um número enorme de jovens voluntários, dando força ainda maior a esse movimento de guerrilha. Em memória da data, foi feita a canção "Sunday Bloody Sunday!" em 1983, pela banda irlandesa U2. Paul McCartney também tratou do incidente, na canção "Give Ireland Back To The Irish", lançada em compacto com sua então nova banda, os Wings, em fevereiro de 1972.

Duas investigações foram realizadas pelo Governo britânico. O Widgery Tribunal, realizada no rescaldo do evento, ilibou em grande parte os soldados britânicos e as autoridades da responsabilidade, mas foi criticado por muitos como um "branqueamento" do incidente, incluindo pelo antigo chefe de equipe de Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell. O Inquérito Saville, iniciado em 1998 para analisar os acontecimentos novamente (presidida por Lord Saville de Newdigate), apresentou um relatório, em 2010,  que mostrava que os soldados e autoridades do Reino Unido procederam de forma errada, levando à apresentação de desculpas às famílias das vítimas por parte do Primeiro Ministro do Reino Unido.

O Exército Republicano Irlandês (IRA) iniciara a sua campanha contra a Irlanda do Norte ser uma parte do Reino Unido havia dois anos antes do Bloody Sunday, mas a interpretação do evento impulsionaram enormemente o recrutamento e o apoio à organização.

O Bloody Sunday continua entre os mais importantes eventos dos apelidados Troubles da Irlanda do Norte, principalmente devido ao facto de ter sido levado a cabo pelo exército britânico.

    

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Mural by Bogside Artists depicting all who were killed by the British Army on the day

   
The death

• John (Jackie) Duddy. Shot in the chest in the car park of Rossville flats. Four witnesses stated Duddy was unarmed and running away from the paratroopers when he was killed. Three of them saw a soldier take deliberate aim at the youth as he ran. He is the uncle of the Irish boxer John Duddy.
• Patrick Joseph Doherty. Shot from behind while attempting to crawl to safety in the forecourt of Rossville flats. Doherty was the subject of a series of photographs, taken before and after he died by French journalist Gilles Peress. Despite testimony from "Soldier F" that he had fired at a man holding and firing a pistol, Widgery acknowledged that the photographs showed Doherty was unarmed, and that forensic tests on his hands for gunshot residue proved negative.
• Bernard McGuigan. Shot in the back of the head when he went to help Patrick Doherty. He had been waving a white handkerchief at the soldiers to indicate his peaceful intentions.
• Hugh Pius Gilmour. Shot through his right elbow, the bullet then entering his chest as he ran from the paratroopers on Rossville Street. Widgery acknowledged that a photograph taken seconds after Gilmour was hit corroborated witness reports that he was unarmed, and that tests for gunshot residue were negative.
• Kevin McElhinney. Shot from behind while attempting to crawl to safety at the front entrance of the Rossville Flats. Two witnesses stated McElhinney was unarmed.
• Michael Gerald Kelly. Shot in the stomach while standing near the rubble barricade in front of Rossville Flats. Widgery accepted that Kelly was unarmed.
• John Pius Young. Shot in the head while standing at the rubble barricade. Two witnesses stated Young was unarmed.
• William Noel Nash. Shot in the chest near the barricade. Witnesses stated Nash was unarmed and going to the aid of another when killed.
• Michael M. McDaid. Shot in the face at the barricade as he was walking away from the paratroopers. The trajectory of the bullet indicated he could have been killed by soldiers positioned on the Derry Walls.
• James Joseph Wray. Wounded then shot again at close range while lying on the ground. Witnesses who were not called to the Widgery Tribunal stated that Wray was calling out that he could not move his legs before he was shot the second time.
• Gerald Donaghey. Shot in the stomach while attempting to run to safety between Glenfada Park and Abbey Park. Donaghey was brought to a nearby house by bystanders where he was examined by a doctor. His pockets were turned out in an effort to identify him. A later police photograph of Donaghey's corpse showed nail bombs in his pockets. Neither those who searched his pockets in the house nor the British army medical officer (Soldier 138) who pronounced him dead shortly afterwards say they saw any bombs. Donaghey had been a member of Fianna Éireann, an IRA-linked Republican youth movement. Paddy Ward, a police informer who gave evidence at the Saville Inquiry, claimed that he had given two nail bombs to Donaghey several hours before he was shot dead.
• Gerard (James) McKinney. Shot just after Gerald Donaghey. Witnesses stated that McKinney had been running behind Donaghey, and he stopped and held up his arms, shouting "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!", when he saw Donaghey fall. He was then shot in the chest.
• William Anthony McKinney. Shot from behind as he attempted to aid Gerald McKinney (no relation). He had left cover to try to help Gerald.
• John Johnston. Shot in the leg and left shoulder on William Street 15 minutes before the rest of the shooting started. Johnston was not on the march, but on his way to visit a friend in Glenfada Park. He died 4½ months later; his death has been attributed to the injuries he received on the day. He was the only one not to die immediately or soon after being shot.

   
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O Domingo Sangrento foi há 47 anos

O Padre Edward Daly (futuro Bispo de Derry) com a bandeira branca manchada de sangue, tentando levar Jackie Duddy, ferido de morte

  

Domingo Sangrento (em gaélico: Domhnach na Fola, Bloody Sunday, em inglês) foi um confronto entre manifestantes católicos e protestantes, e o exército inglês ocorrido na cidade de Derry, na Irlanda do Norte, no dia 30 de janeiro de 1972. O movimento teve início com um protesto de dez mil manifestantes que pretendiam, saindo do bairro de Creggan em marcha pelas ruas católicas da cidade, chegar até a Câmara Municipal. Antes disso, entretanto, os soldados ingleses partiram para ofensiva e disparam contra os manifestantes, deixando 14 ativistas católicos mortos e 26 feridos.

Das catorze vítimas mortas, seis eram menores de idade e um sétimo ferido faleceu meses depois do incidente. Todas as vítimas estavam desarmadas e cinco delas foram alvejadas pelas costas. Os manifestantes protestavam contra a política do governo norte-irlandês de prender sumariamente pessoas suspeitas de atos terroristas. O incidente, que entrou para a história da ilha, era para apoiar o Exército Republicano Irlandês, o IRA, uma organização clandestina que lutava pela separação da Irlanda do Norte da Grã-Bretanha e posterior união com a República da Irlanda. Após o "Domingo Sangrento", o IRA ganhou um número enorme de jovens voluntários, dando força ainda maior a esse movimento de guerrilha. Em memória da data, foi feita a canção "Sunday Bloody Sunday!" em 1983, pela banda irlandesa U2. Paul McCartney também tratou do incidente, na canção "Give Ireland Back To The Irish", lançada em compacto com sua então nova banda, os Wings, em fevereiro de 1972.

Duas investigações foram realizadas pelo Governo britânico. O Widgery Tribunal, realizada no rescaldo do evento, ilibou em grande parte os soldados britânicos e as autoridades da responsabilidade, mas foi criticado por muitos como um "branqueamento" do incidente, incluindo pelo antigo chefe de equipe de Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell. O Inquérito Saville, iniciado em 1998 para analisar os acontecimentos novamente (presidida por Lord Saville de Newdigate), apresentou um relatório, em 2010,  que mostrava que os soldados e autoridades do Reino Unido procederam de forma errada, levando à apresentação de desculpas às famílias das vítimas por parte do Primeiro Ministro do Reino Unido.

O Exército Republicano Irlandês (IRA) iniciara a sua campanha contra a Irlanda do Norte ser uma parte do Reino Unido havia dois anos antes do Bloody Sunday, mas a interpretação do evento impulsionaram enormemente o recrutamento e o apoio à organização.

O Bloody Sunday continua entre os mais importantes eventos dos apelidados Troubles da Irlanda do Norte, principalmente devido ao facto de ter sido levado a cabo pelo exército britânico.

  

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Mural by Bogside Artists depicting all who were killed by the British Army on the day

The death

• John (Jackie) Duddy. Shot in the chest in the car park of Rossville flats. Four witnesses stated Duddy was unarmed and running away from the paratroopers when he was killed. Three of them saw a soldier take deliberate aim at the youth as he ran. He is the uncle of the Irish boxer John Duddy.
• Patrick Joseph Doherty. Shot from behind while attempting to crawl to safety in the forecourt of Rossville flats. Doherty was the subject of a series of photographs, taken before and after he died by French journalist Gilles Peress. Despite testimony from "Soldier F" that he had fired at a man holding and firing a pistol, Widgery acknowledged that the photographs showed Doherty was unarmed, and that forensic tests on his hands for gunshot residue proved negative.
• Bernard McGuigan. Shot in the back of the head when he went to help Patrick Doherty. He had been waving a white handkerchief at the soldiers to indicate his peaceful intentions.
• Hugh Pius Gilmour. Shot through his right elbow, the bullet then entering his chest as he ran from the paratroopers on Rossville Street. Widgery acknowledged that a photograph taken seconds after Gilmour was hit corroborated witness reports that he was unarmed, and that tests for gunshot residue were negative.
• Kevin McElhinney. Shot from behind while attempting to crawl to safety at the front entrance of the Rossville Flats. Two witnesses stated McElhinney was unarmed.
• Michael Gerald Kelly. Shot in the stomach while standing near the rubble barricade in front of Rossville Flats. Widgery accepted that Kelly was unarmed.
• John Pius Young. Shot in the head while standing at the rubble barricade. Two witnesses stated Young was unarmed.
• William Noel Nash. Shot in the chest near the barricade. Witnesses stated Nash was unarmed and going to the aid of another when killed.
• Michael M. McDaid. Shot in the face at the barricade as he was walking away from the paratroopers. The trajectory of the bullet indicated he could have been killed by soldiers positioned on the Derry Walls.
• James Joseph Wray. Wounded then shot again at close range while lying on the ground. Witnesses who were not called to the Widgery Tribunal stated that Wray was calling out that he could not move his legs before he was shot the second time.
• Gerald Donaghey. Shot in the stomach while attempting to run to safety between Glenfada Park and Abbey Park. Donaghey was brought to a nearby house by bystanders where he was examined by a doctor. His pockets were turned out in an effort to identify him. A later police photograph of Donaghey's corpse showed nail bombs in his pockets. Neither those who searched his pockets in the house nor the British army medical officer (Soldier 138) who pronounced him dead shortly afterwards say they saw any bombs. Donaghey had been a member of Fianna Éireann, an IRA-linked Republican youth movement. Paddy Ward, a police informer who gave evidence at the Saville Inquiry, claimed that he had given two nail bombs to Donaghey several hours before he was shot dead.
• Gerard (James) McKinney. Shot just after Gerald Donaghey. Witnesses stated that McKinney had been running behind Donaghey, and he stopped and held up his arms, shouting "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!", when he saw Donaghey fall. He was then shot in the chest.
• William Anthony McKinney. Shot from behind as he attempted to aid Gerald McKinney (no relation). He had left cover to try to help Gerald.
• John Johnston. Shot in the leg and left shoulder on William Street 15 minutes before the rest of the shooting started. Johnston was not on the march, but on his way to visit a friend in Glenfada Park. He died 4½ months later; his death has been attributed to the injuries he received on the day. He was the only one not to die immediately or soon after being shot.

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Sunday Bloody Sunday...

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes, make them go away

How long?
How long must we sing this song?
How long
How long?
Tonight we can be as one
Tonight

Broken bottles under children's feet
And bodies strewn across a dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up
Against the wall!

Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday

And the battles just begun
There's many lost
But tell me who has won?
The trenches dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart

Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday

How long?
How long must we sing this song?
How long
How long?
Cause tonight we can be as one
Tonight

Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight

Wipe the tears of your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
Wipe bloodshot eyes

Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and Tv is reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On a sunday, bloody sunday

Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday

Hoje é dia de recordar o Live Aid...

Há 42 anos um Domingo Sangrento abalou uma ilha inteira...

O Padre Edward Daly (e futuro Bispo Católico de Derry) com uma bandeira branca, manchada de sangue, tentando levar Jackie Duddy, ferido de morte, para lugar seguro

Domingo Sangrento (em gaélico: Domhnach na Fola, Bloody Sunday, em inglês) foi um confronto entre manifestantes católicos e protestantes, e o exército inglês ocorrido na cidade de Derry, na Irlanda do Norte, no dia 30 de janeiro de 1972. O movimento teve início com um protesto de dez mil manifestantes que pretendiam, saindo do bairro de Creggan em marcha pelas ruas católicas da cidade, chegar até a Câmara Municipal. Antes disso, entretanto, os soldados ingleses partiram para ofensiva e disparam contra os manifestantes, deixando 14 ativistas católicos mortos e 26 feridos.

Das catorze vítimas mortas, seis eram menores de idade e um sétimo ferido faleceu meses depois do incidente. Todas as vítimas estavam desarmadas e cinco delas foram alvejadas pelas costas. Os manifestantes protestavam contra a política do governo norte-irlandês de prender sumariamente pessoas suspeitas de atos terroristas. O incidente, que entrou para a história da ilha, era para apoiar o Exército Republicano Irlandês, o IRA, uma organização clandestina que lutava pela separação da Irlanda do Norte da Grã-Bretanha e posterior união com a República da Irlanda. Após o "Domingo Sangrento", o IRA ganhou um número enorme de jovens voluntários, dando força ainda maior a esse movimento de guerrilha. Em memória da data, foi feita a canção "Sunday Bloody Sunday!" em 1983, pela banda irlandesa U2. Paul McCartney também tratou do incidente, na canção "Give Ireland Back To The Irish", lançada em compacto com sua então nova banda, os Wings, em fevereiro de 1972.

Duas investigações foram realizadas pelo Governo britânico. O Widgery Tribunal, realizada no rescaldo do evento, ilibou em grande parte os soldados britânicos e as autoridades da responsabilidade, mas foi criticado por muitos como um "branqueamento" do incidente, incluindo pelo antigo chefe de equipe de Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell. O Inquérito Saville, iniciado em 1998 para analisar os acontecimentos novamente (presidida por Lord Saville de Newdigate), apresentou um relatório, em 2010,  que mostrava que os soldados e autoridades do Reino Unido procederam de forma errada, levando à apresentação de desculpas às famílias das vítimas por parte do Primeiro Ministro do Reino Unido.

O Exército Republicano Irlandês (IRA) iniciara a sua campanha contra a Irlanda do Norte ser uma parte do Reino Unido havia dois anos antes do Bloody Sunday, mas a interpretação do evento impulsionaram enormemente o recrutamento e o apoio à organização.

O Bloody Sunday continua entre os mais importantes eventos dos apelidados Troubles da Irlanda do Norte, principalmente devido ao facto de ter sido levado a cabo pelo exército britânico.

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Mural by Bogside Artists depicting all who were killed by the British Army on the day

The death

• John (Jackie) Duddy. Shot in the chest in the car park of Rossville flats. Four witnesses stated Duddy was unarmed and running away from the paratroopers when he was killed. Three of them saw a soldier take deliberate aim at the youth as he ran. He is the uncle of the Irish boxer John Duddy.
• Patrick Joseph Doherty. Shot from behind while attempting to crawl to safety in the forecourt of Rossville flats. Doherty was the subject of a series of photographs, taken before and after he died by French journalist Gilles Peress. Despite testimony from "Soldier F" that he had fired at a man holding and firing a pistol, Widgery acknowledged that the photographs showed Doherty was unarmed, and that forensic tests on his hands for gunshot residue proved negative.
• Bernard McGuigan. Shot in the back of the head when he went to help Patrick Doherty. He had been waving a white handkerchief at the soldiers to indicate his peaceful intentions.
• Hugh Pius Gilmour. Shot through his right elbow, the bullet then entering his chest as he ran from the paratroopers on Rossville Street. Widgery acknowledged that a photograph taken seconds after Gilmour was hit corroborated witness reports that he was unarmed, and that tests for gunshot residue were negative.
• Kevin McElhinney. Shot from behind while attempting to crawl to safety at the front entrance of the Rossville Flats. Two witnesses stated McElhinney was unarmed.
• Michael Gerald Kelly. Shot in the stomach while standing near the rubble barricade in front of Rossville Flats. Widgery accepted that Kelly was unarmed.
• John Pius Young. Shot in the head while standing at the rubble barricade. Two witnesses stated Young was unarmed.
• William Noel Nash. Shot in the chest near the barricade. Witnesses stated Nash was unarmed and going to the aid of another when killed.
• Michael M. McDaid. Shot in the face at the barricade as he was walking away from the paratroopers. The trajectory of the bullet indicated he could have been killed by soldiers positioned on the Derry Walls.
• James Joseph Wray. Wounded then shot again at close range while lying on the ground. Witnesses who were not called to the Widgery Tribunal stated that Wray was calling out that he could not move his legs before he was shot the second time.
• Gerald Donaghey. Shot in the stomach while attempting to run to safety between Glenfada Park and Abbey Park. Donaghey was brought to a nearby house by bystanders where he was examined by a doctor. His pockets were turned out in an effort to identify him. A later police photograph of Donaghey's corpse showed nail bombs in his pockets. Neither those who searched his pockets in the house nor the British army medical officer (Soldier 138) who pronounced him dead shortly afterwards say they saw any bombs. Donaghey had been a member of Fianna Éireann, an IRA-linked Republican youth movement. Paddy Ward, a police informer who gave evidence at the Saville Inquiry, claimed that he had given two nail bombs to Donaghey several hours before he was shot dead.
• Gerard (James) McKinney. Shot just after Gerald Donaghey. Witnesses stated that McKinney had been running behind Donaghey, and he stopped and held up his arms, shouting "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!", when he saw Donaghey fall. He was then shot in the chest.
• William Anthony McKinney. Shot from behind as he attempted to aid Gerald McKinney (no relation). He had left cover to try to help Gerald.
• John Johnston. Shot in the leg and left shoulder on William Street 15 minutes before the rest of the shooting started. Johnston was not on the march, but on his way to visit a friend in Glenfada Park. He died 4½ months later; his death has been attributed to the injuries he received on the day. He was the only one not to die immediately or soon after being shot.

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The Edge - 52 anos

David Howell Evans (Londres, 8 de agosto de 1961) mais conhecido por seu nome artístico The Edge (ou apenas Edge), é o guitarrista, backing vocal e teclista da banda de rock irlandesa U2. Em 2003, foi considerado o 38º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

The Edge, juntamente com os colegas de Bono, compuseram recentemente uma adaptação musical do Homem-Aranha.

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O Domingo Sangrento norte-irlandês foi há 41 anos

Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) - sometimes called the Bogside Massacre - was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 13 unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders were shot and killed,another 13 were wounded, later in hospital one of the wounded died,making the body count rise to 14, by soldiers of the British Army. The incident occurred during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march; the soldiers involved were the First Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (1 Para).Thirteen males, seven of whom were teenagers, died immediately or soon after, while the death of another man four and a half months later has been attributed to the injuries he received on that day. Two protesters were also injured when they were run down by army vehicles. Five of those wounded were shot in the back.

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Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2

Yes...

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes
And make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song
How long, how long...
'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long...
How long must we sing this song
How long, how long...
'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...tonight...

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On...

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday...

Live Aid, o maior concerto de sempre, foi há 27 anos

O palco do evento no JFK Stadium, Filadélfia

Live Aid foi um concerto de rock realizado em 13 de julho de 1985. O evento foi organizado por Bob Geldof e Midge Ure com o objetivo de arrecadar fundos a favor da população a morrer de fome da Etiópia. Os concertos foram realizados no Wembley Stadium em Londres (com uma assistência de aproximadamente 82.000 pessoas) e no John F. Kennedy Stadium, em Filadélfia (aproximadamente 99.000 pessoas). Alguns artistas apresentaram-se também em Sydney, Moscovo e no Japão. Foi uma das maiores transmissões em larga escala por satélite e de televisão de todos os tempos - estima-se que mil e quinhentos milhões de espectadores, em mais de 100 países, tenham assistido à apresentação ao vivo.

O concerto foi concebido como a continuação de outro projeto de Geldof e Ure, o bem-sucedido compacto "Do They Know It's Christmas?", gravado por uma conjunção de músicos britânicos e irlandeses sob o nome "Band Aid".

A participação do promotor de eventos musicais Harvey Goldsmith foi primordial para transformar os planos de Geldof e Ure em realidade, e o evento foi crescendo e ganhando visibilidade enquanto vários artistas ingleses e norte-americanos concordavam em participar. Quanto ao montante final arrecadado, superou em muito as expectativas iniciais de 1 milhão de libras: estima-se que tenha ultrapassado os 150 milhões de libras (aproximadamente 283,6 milhões de dólares). Em reconhecimento a seus esforços, Geldof seria posteriormente condecorado com a ordem de "Cavaleiro do Império Britânico".

O concerto começou às 12.00 horas (hora local) em Wembley, Inglaterra, e continuou no JFK Stadium (EUA) às 13.51 horas. As apresentações no Reino Unido terminaram às 22.00 horas, enquanto que no JFK a conclusão se deu às 04.05 da madrugada. Conclui-se então que o concerto teve 16 horas, mas uma vez que as apresentações de muitos artistas aconteceram simultaneamente no Wembley e no JFK, a soma final é bem maior.
Nenhum concerto antes havia reunido tantos artistas famosos do passado e do presente (cujos nomes estão listados abaixo). Entretanto, à última hora, alguns músicos já anunciados acabaram não aparecendo, como Tears For Fears, Julian Lennon e Cat Stevens, enquanto Prince mandou em seu lugar um videoclipe da canção "4 The Tears In Your Eyes". Stevens compôs uma canção especialmente para o evento, que nunca chegou a apresentar - se o tivesse feito, seria seu primeiro concerto público após sua conversão ao islamismo. o Deep Purple também deveria se reunir para o evento, mas Ritchie Blackmore recusou-se a participar.
Mick Jagger pretendia originalmente se apresentar nos EUA num dueto intercontinental com David Bowie em Londres, mas problemas de sincronismo impossibilitaram a tarefa. Ao invés disso, Jagger e Bowie criaram um videoclipe da canção que apresentariam juntos, uma versão de "Dancing In The Street". Jagger ainda se apresentou com Tina Turner na seção estadunidense do concerto.
Ambos os eventos principais do concerto terminaram com seus respectivos hinos anti-fome, o "Do They Know It's Christmas?" da Band Aid no Reino Unido e "We Are The World" do USA For Africa fechando o show nos EUA.
Desde então vários discos e vídeos piratas com os concertos do Live Aid têm circulado livremente. O evento nunca foi planejado para ser lançado comercialmente, mas em novembro de 2004 a Warner Music Group lançou um DVD quádruplo do concerto para tentar dar um fim à pirataria.

O concerto foi a transmissão televisiva por satélite mais ambiciosa já tentada até então.

Na Europa o sinal foi transmitido pela BBC, apresentado por Richard Skinner e Andy Kershaw e trazendo várias entrevistas e reportagens entre os shows. O sinal da BBC foi transmitido em mono, mas o sinal da BBC Radio 1 saiu em estéreo e em sincronia com as imagens da TV. Devido às constantes atividades tanto em Londes quanto na Filadélfia, os produtores da BBC omitiram a performance de Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young de sua exibição. Vários canais da Europa retransmitiram o evento a partir do sinal da BBC.

A ABC foi a principal responsável pela transmissão nos EUA (embora a própria ABC só tenha exibido as últimas três horas do evento, apresentadas por Dick Clark, com o resto sendo mostrada em parceria com a Orbis Communications). Uma transmissão simultânea em separado foi exibida em estéreo pelo canal a cabo MTV, mas uma vez que existiam poucos aparelhos de TV desse tipo na época e a maioria dos canais de TV não tinham sinal estéreo, grande parte do público assistiu mesmo foi a versão em mono. Enquanto a transmissão da BBC foi ininterrupta, tanto a MTV quanto a ABC incluíram comerciais entre os shows, cortando muitas das sequências do concerto.

Em certo ponto da concerto o apresentador Billy Conolly anunciou que acabara de ser informado que 95% dos aparelhos de TV em todo o mundo estavam sintonizados no evento.

Os Queen abriram a sua apresentação com "Bohemian Rapsody", sob intensa ovação, e os maneirismos do vocalista Freddie Mercury levaram toda a plateia no Wembley a bater palmas em uníssono durante "Radio Ga Ga" e a cantar juntos, verso por verso, "We Will Rock You" e "We Are The Champions". A apresentação da banda acabaria sendo eleita num inquérito como o "Melhor Show Ao Vivo" já realizado.

Outro momento que chamou a atenção do público foi quando David Bowie apresentou a canção "Heroes" e a dedicou a seu filho, e também "a todos os nosso filhos, e aos filhos do mundo".

A perfomance do U2 estabilizou a banda como um dos grupos ao vivo de mais destaque de sua geração - algo que mais tarde os transformaria em superastros. Bono Vox pulou do palco para dançar com uma garota, e por causa disso a banda deixou de tocar uma das três músicas que originalmente iriam apresentar. Em julho de 2005, a garota que dançou com ele revelou que na verdade Bono salvou sua vida. Ela estava sendo esmagada pela multidão que se aglomerava na frente do palco. O vocalista gesticulou freneticamente para que os seguranças a ajudassem, mas eles não entenderam, então Bono pulou do palco para ajudá-la. A cena pode ser vista no DVD do concerto, durante a canção "Bad".

A transmissão transatlântica do Wembley Stadium sofreu problemas técnicos e caiu durante a apresentação da canção "My Generation" do The Who, imediatamente depois de Roger Daltrey cantar "Why don't you all f…" (a última palavra foi cortada quando o gerador explodiu).

Os organizadores do concerto disseram posteriormente que estavam particularmente preocupados em garantir a participação de pelo menos um dos Beatles, preferencialmente Paul McCartney, pois sua importância no cenário musical daria ao movimento uma certa legitimidade aos olhos dos líderes políticos cujas opiniões eles estavam tentando moldar. McCartney concordou em se apresentou e disse que foi "a gerência" - seus filhos - que o convenceram a tomar parte. No evento ele foi o último músico (à parte a conclusão do Band Aid) a subir no palco e enfrentou algumas dificuldades técnicas. Seu microfone não funcionou nos primeiros dois minutos de sua performance ao piano em "Let It Be", mal sendo ouvido pelos telespectadores e o público geral no estádio.

Phil Collins se apresentou tanto no Wembley quanto no JFK, utilizando um Concorde para viajar de Londres à Filadélfia. Além de seu próprio set ele também se apresentou como baterista de Eric Clapton e do Led Zeppelin no JFK. Durante o voo Phil encontrou a cantora Cher, que não sabia do show. Ela pode ser vista se apresentando nos EUA com o USA For Africa na conclusão do concerto em Filadélfia.

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John Lennon e Yoko Ono - Sunday Bloody Sunday

John & Yoko - Sunday Bloody Sunday

Well, it was sunday, bloody sunday when the shot the people there.
The cries of thirteen martyrs filled the free derry air.
Is there anyone amongst you dare to blame it on the kids?
Not a soldier boy was bleeding when they nailed the coffin lids!

Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.

Well, you claim to be majority, well, you know that it's a lie.
You're really a minority on this sweet emerald isle.
When stormont bans our marches, they've got a lot to learn,
Internment is no answer, it's those mothers' turn to burn.

Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.

Hey! yeah! Yeah!

Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.

All you anglo pigs and scotties sent to colonise the north,
You wave your bloody union jacks and you know what it's worth.
How dare you hold to ransom a people proud and free?
Keep Ireland to the Irish, put the english back to sea!

Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.

Hey, hey, hey!
Alright!
Ooh - Yeah!

Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.

Well, it's always bloody sunday in the concentration camps.
Keep falls road free forever from the bloody british hands.
Repatriate to britain all of you who call it home,
Leave Ireland to the Irish not for london or for rome.

Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.
Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.
Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.
Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.
Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.
Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.
Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.
Sunday, bloody sunday, bloody sunday's the day.
Sunday, bloody sunday.

Bloody Sunday - há 40 anos tropas britânicas massacraram católicos desarmados em Derry, na Irlanda do Norte

Father Edward Daly waving a blood-stained white handkerchief while trying to escort the mortally wounded Jackie Duddy to safety

Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) - sometimes called the Bogside Massacre - was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army. Thirteen males, seven of whom were teenagers, died immediately or soon after, while the death of another man four-and-a-half months later was attributed to the injuries he received on that day. Two protesters were also injured when they were run down by army vehicles. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. The incident occurred during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march; the soldiers involved were members of the First Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (1 Para).

Two investigations have been held by the British government. The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the event, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame—Widgery described the soldiers' shooting as "bordering on the reckless"—but was criticised as a "whitewash", including by Jonathan Powell. The Saville Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in 1998 to reinvestigate the events. Following a 12-year inquiry, Saville's report was made public on 15 June 2010, and contained findings of fault that could re-open the controversy, and potentially lead to criminal investigations for some soldiers involved in the killings.The report found that all of those shot were unarmed, and that the killings were both "unjustified and unjustifiable." On the publication of the Saville report the British prime minister, David Cameron, made a formal apology on behalf of the United Kingdom.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army's (IRA) campaign against the partition of Ireland had begun in the two years prior to Bloody Sunday, but public perceptions of the day boosted the status of, and recruitment into, the organisation enormously. Bloody Sunday remains among the most significant events in the Troubles of Northern Ireland, chiefly because it was carried out by the army and not paramilitaries, in full view of the public and the press.

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Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2

Yes...

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes
And make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song
How long, how long...
'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long...
How long must we sing this song
How long, how long...
'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...tonight...

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On...

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday...

Sunday, blody sunday

No comment - oh Jesus...

A política da verdade

Já estamos pouco habituados, mas ainda há políticos que assumem erros antigos e aceitar falar a verdade:

Relatório sobre Domingo Sangrento
"Todos são inocentes"

O primeiro-ministro britânico, David Cameron,divulgou hoje o relatório sobre o Domingo Sangrento, no qual se conclui que os 14 manifestantes mortos pelas tropas britânicas em Londonderry (Irlanda do Norte) a 30 de Janeiro de 1972 eram inocentes.

Homenageemos as vítimas do Domingo Sangrento (e ainda os políticos que finalmente limparam o seu nome) com duas músicas, uma de John Lennon (cantor inglês com raízes familiares irlandesas) e outra dos U2: