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Al-Araby
Denis Bradley was only 26 when he witnessed British paratroopers shoot dead 13 civilians during a rights march in Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday. The former priest, now in his 70s, vividly remembers his shock on 30 January 1972, when he saw the protest involving “the usual” stone-throwing turn into “a massacre”. AFP interviewed Bradley, who left the Catholic Church at the end of the 1970s, in the hours following the killings and the memories are still fresh 50 years on. “Suddenly, I heard shooting. And that surprised me. And then a lot of people running,” said Bradley, who had been in what’…