Editing Annie's Bar Massacre

{{Act of Villainy
|image = Annie's_Bar.jpg
|perpetrator=[[Ulster Defence Association]]
|motive=Extremism
|location=Belfast, Northern Ireland
|crimes=[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Murder]]<br>[[Sectarianism]]
|date=December 20, 1972}}

The '''Top of the Hill bar shooting''', known locally as the '''Annie's Bar massacre''', was a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] that occurred in Belfast in 1972. It was part of the political and religious conflict known as [[the Troubles]] that lasted from 1967 to 1998. Five bar patrons, all men, were killed in the attack. It is considered an act of [[terrorism]] by the UK government.

== Shooting ==
On December 20, 1972, the Catholic-owned Top of the Hill bar (now called Annie's Bar) was attacked by members of a group calling itself the "[[Ulster Defence Association|Ulster Freedom Fighters]]" (a division of the Ulster Defence Association). The bar was packed with civilians watching a football game on TV when two armed and masked men burst in and sprayed the room with bullets from a Sterling submachine gun. The attack was over in under a minute and left five people dead. The bar is believed to have been targeted because it was often visited by Catholics, the main target of pro-UK terrorists like the UFF. Among the five dead men, one, Charles Moore, was actually a Protestant.

As with most of the atrocities committed during the troubles, those responsible for the massacre were never caught. Many people regard the Annie's Bar massacre as a particularly heinous killing because it took place just five days before Christmas. It is believed that the attack was in response to the killing of a UDR man named George Hamilton by the [[Irish Republican Army]] earlier that day, but that was seen as poor justification for the killing of five innocent people. It was the largest and most deadly UFF/UDA attack until 1992.
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