The 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma has occasioned a wonderful movie and moving tributes yesterday by President Obama and Rep. John Lewis on the bridge named for a notorious racist where police forces of Alabama white supremacy bloodied scores of peaceful voting rights demonstrators.
Awful as that was, no one was murdered by government there.
Which cannot be said of two other 20th-century Bloody Sundays -- in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Jan. 30, 1972, and in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Jan. 22, 1905.
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