A sense of finalityaccompanied the June 15 release of Britain's 10-volume,5,000-page final report on the events of Jan. 30, 1972. On that day, remembered ever since in Northern Ireland as Bloody Sunday, British paratroopers shot and killed 13 unarmed Catholic civil-rights protesters on the streets of Londonderry. The episode deepened the Troubles, which eventually left more than 3,000 dead. But in a speech that once would have been unthinkable, Prime Minister David Cameron has now said he is "deeply sorry" for the Army's "unjustified and unjustifiable" actions.
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