Several of the prominent figures in the civil rights movement, including Cooper, Currie and Hume, criticised the PD for being deliberately provocative and indulging in a dangerous coat-trailing exercise by setting out to walk through Loyalist towns. To this day many people feel that the situation would somehow have settled down had the students not marched. It might have done, but would Paisley and company? The PD march has to be regarded as one of the catalytic moments of the tragedy. But had the conditions not existed to generate tragedy the march either would not have taken place, or else
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