Northern Ireland-Bloody Sunday
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- Bloody Sunday
- Burning of Bombay Street
- August 1969
- Burned to the ground by a loyalist mob
- A typical west Belfast working class street
- situated in the shadow of
the well known Clonard Monastery
- It also neighboured Cupar
Street, an unmarked dividing line between the Nationalist Clonard Area
- And the Loyalist Shankill Area
- It also neighboured Cupar
Street, an unmarked dividing line between the Nationalist Clonard Area
- Burned to the ground by a loyalist mob
- 14th August 1969
- Republicans exchanged
shots with the RUC and Loyalist gunmen
- When the RUC pressed into the Nationalist district it was followed by a Loyalist mob
- Republicans exchanged
shots with the RUC and Loyalist gunmen
- August 1969
- Government Response
- Lord Widgery’s inquiry failed to provide a satisfactory conclusion to the events
- Best use of limited resources
- Protestant pressure to maintain hard line
- The move has been welcomed by Unionist MPs
- But has been fiercely condemned by Republicans
- Support for the government from unionist community which saw the march as both illegal and provocative
- Search for Arms
- 1970 and onwards
- Most weapons were acquired from America
- By 1972, the IRA had large quantities of modern small arms
- 1970 and onwards
- Internment
- 1st August 1971
- It was only used against Nationalists and violence was used in interrogations.
- Internment increased support for the
IRA.
- At the end of August the IRA announced that Internment had not affected them
- During that time nearly 200 known or suspected members of the IRA were detained without trial in special internment camps for an average of two years
- A new law giving the authorities the power to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists without trial
- 1st August 1971
- Attitude of the army at
the beginning of 1972
- The British army
rounded up over 400 of suspects
- But the RUC’s intelligence was out of date
- some cases men were brought in because they were living in the houses of dead Republicans
- The British army
rounded up over 400 of suspects
- Burning of Bombay Street
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