THE annual Bloody Sunday march will continue to “rage” against all wrongs inflicted by the state, a sister of one of the victims has said.
Kate Nash was addressing the 45th Bloody Sunday anniversary march and rally at Free Derry Corner on Sunday.
Mrs Nash - whose brother William was one of the 14 victims and whose father Alex was wounded - read out a long list of ongoing campaigns, including the Ballymurphy killings and the detention of high-profile dissident republican Tony Taylor.
“This platform will continue to rage against all these wrongs,” she said.
The annual march has continued over the last six years despite not being supported by the majority of Bloody Sunday families.
Down in numbers this year, it traced the route of the original 1972 anti-internment march.
The march was led by relatives of the Bloody Sunday dead carrying white crosses.
The names of the dead were read by Damien Donaghy, who as a teenager was the first casualty of Bloody Sunday when he was shot by the Parachute Regiment.
Also among those attending the rally was former Stormont SDLP minister Ivan Cooper, who was one of the organisers of the original march.
Speaker Sheila Coleman of Liverpool’s Hillsborough Justice Campaign told marchers the annual commemoration was “profound”.
“We can’t give up. We owe it to the dead when any injustice had been committed. We have a responsibility to fight because they can no longer fight and we have a responsibility to right the longs irrespective of how long that goes on.”
She also said campaigning was particularly important in a week when British prime minister Theresa May walked “hand in hand” with US president Donald Trump.
Earlier on Sunday, all the Bloody Sunday families came together for a short commemoration at a monument at Rossville Street in Derry.
