LONDON – Families of the victims and survivors of the 1972 Bloody Sunday , in which British soldiers opened fire and killed 13 unarmed civil rights marchers and injured 15 others in Northern Ireland, have fought for justice for five decades without a single person being held accountable in court.

That could change after Monday when a former British soldier goes on trial on charges of murder in the shooting of two men and the attempted murders of five others.

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The ex-paratrooper, identified only as a “Soldier F” and concealed from view in court behind blue floor-to-ceiling curtain to protect him from vengeance, is the lone defendant in the deadliest shooting in the three decades of Northern Ireland violence known as “The Troubles.”

The Jan. 30, 1972 massacre in Lo

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