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Posts. phil black has more. >> reporter: the name for this violent period always sounds like a bitter understatement. decades of brutality, more than 3,000 people killed. this was one of its darkest days. bloody sunday, january 1972. british soldiers fired on a crowd killing 13 people. the troubles were really a long war fought over identity and territory. on one side the republicans overwhelmingly catholic who wanted northern ireland to join the republic of ireland. the loyalists mostly protestant believing they should remain part of the united kingdom. both sides pursued their goal with viol...
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