On the afternoon of Sunday 30 January 1972, soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment, one of the fearsome British militia units fighting the battle in the north of Ireland, attacked a civil rights march in the city of Derry, killing or fatally wounding fourteen civilians and injuring two dozen others, in an event that the international press soon became known as the “Bloody Sunday Massacre.” The same group of soldiers had gone on a similar killing spree a few months earlier in Belfast, killing eleven people in cold blood, including a local Catholic priest, in a two-day reign of terror known as the “Ballymurphy massacre” of August 1971. More of the same was expected of them in the western city of Derry for their work in the previous massacre and they certainly lived up to those expectations. However, as in Belfast, the war crimes of the Parachute Regiment simply served to increase local support for armed resistance to Britain's continued presence, particularly for the anchor Say No to Plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayProvisional Irish Republican Army, [IRA] helping to make a temporary conflict almost permanent. Bloody Sunday was one of the most brutal events of the “Troubles” because large numbers of Catholic citizens were killed by British Army forces, in full view of the public and the press. It was the highest number of people killed in a single shooting during the troubles in Northern Ireland. Bloody Sunday increased Catholic and republican nationalist hostility towards the British Army and escalated the conflict. Support for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) increased and there was a wave of recruitment into the organisation, especially in Derry and Belfast. At 4.07pm, soldiers were ordered to cross the barriers and arrest the republican demonstrators. Soldiers, on foot and in armored vehicles, chased people along Rossville Street and into the Bogside. Two people were hit by British armored vehicles. Brigadier MacLellan had ordered that only a group of soldiers be sent through the barriers, on foot, and that they not chase people down Rossville Street. Colonel Wilford disobeyed this order, which meant there was no separation between Republican rioters and protesters. The soldiers disembarked and began arresting people. There were many reports of soldiers beating people, hitting them with rifle butts, shooting rubber bullets at close range, threatening to kill, and shouting insults. The Saville Report agreed that soldiers “used excessive force when arresting people and seriously assaulted them for no good reason while they were in custody. A large group of people were chased into the Rossville Flats car park. This area was like a courtyard, surrounded on three sides by skyscrapers. The soldiers opened fire, killing one civilian and wounding six others. The victim, Jackie Duddy, was running alongside a priest, Father Edward Daly, when he was shot in the back. Some of those affected received first aid from civilian volunteers, both on site and after being transported to nearby homes. They were then taken to hospital, in civilian cars or in ambulances. The first ambulances arrived at 4.28pm. The three boys killed on the rubble barricade were taken to hospital by British soldiers. Witnesses said the paratroopers lifted the bodies by the hands and feet and dumped them in the back of their armored vehicles, as if they were "pieces of meat." The.