Some 3,637 candles were lit in memory of those who were killed in acts of violence linked to the Troubles in the North at the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration march in Derry yesterday.
More than 5,000 people took part in yesterday's march, held to commemorate the killings by British army paratroopers of 13 civilians during a civil rights march in the Bogside area of the city on January 30th, 1972.
John Kelly, whose brother Michael was one of the Bloody Sunday victims, said the decision to symbolically light the candles was taken by the families of those who were killed on the streets of the Bogside 34 years ago.
"It was for everybody, for the people killed on Bloody Sunday, for other civilians, paramilitaries, policemen and soldiers, no matter who died, this was for them and we also remembered them during a minute of quiet reflection at the end of the march.
"No one has a monopoly on grief, we in the Bloody Sunday Trust recognise and accept that. Everyone has suffered, everyone should be remembered and that's what this gesture was about today," Mr Kelly said.
Relatives of the victims of Bloody Sunday, carrying crosses bearing the names of the 13 people who were killed, led yesterday's march.
It followed the route of the 1972 march, from the Creggan into the Bogside for a rally at Free Derry Corner.