Violent Protests in Belfast

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Violence erupted for a third night in Belfast late Sunday as Protestant protesters threw incendiary devices at police who responded with rubber bullets, Britain's Press Agency reported.

One officer was injured late Sunday, after seven were hurt the night before and more than 30 were injured late Friday when rioters hurled petrol bombs, sticks, fireworks, drain pipes, and part of a wall at police, and some wielded swords. Police responded with water cannon. Since Friday some 35 people have been arrested.

The fighting broke out late Friday following a march in Belfast to commemorate a Protestant victory over a Catholic king more than 300 years ago.

Marchers from the Protestant Orange Order - so named after Protestant King William III of Orange - were prevented from entering the northern area of Ardoyne that has a large concentration of Catholic residents.

The ban prompted some Orange Order members to call for widespread protests, which quickly descended into violence.

Protestant marches in Northern Ireland to mark the anniversary of the victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 have seen violence in the past, but the situation has improved greatly in recent years, following the peace process.

The then prince William's men were victorious against the troops of Catholic King James II, to establish Protestant rule in England and Ireland. The Boyne river flows through Navan and Drogheda in what is now the Republic of Ireland.


Source : Sapa-dpa /gm
Date : 15 Jul 2013 01:47
 
It's a shame for they lost their heads. A careless man could wind up dead. They wear their sins like it's some kind of prize. Too many lies, too many lies.
 
And so we slide backwards into the abyss...slowly but surely. Northern Ireland will soon be overrun with British Troops and it will be the troubles all over again. (They never really went away. BMqLIZO.jpg
 
This actually has very little to do with religion now. This is all about living under the first-world UK government or still-slightly-spastic Irish government...on what is the island of Ireland.

The Catholic vs Protestant thing is superficial to what they're actually going on about.
 
Police Attacked with Petrol Bombs

Police were attacked with petrol bombs and a French press photographer assaulted during a fifth night of violence on the streets of east Belfast on Tuesday, police said.

Clashes broke out as large crowds gathered on the city's on the Lower Newtownards Road, the Northern Ireland Police Service (PSNI) said.

A police vehicle was struck by two petrol bombs and a number of other missiles, but there were no reports of any injuries, police said.

The French photographer who was assaulted also had his camera stolen.

Four cars were hijacked and set on fire and in the latest wave of unrest.

Trouble also flared in the Mount Vernon area of north Belfast and in the Woodvale Road and North Queen Street areas.

The clashes began on Friday after police tried to enforce a decision banning the Orange Order from marching through a Catholic republican area of the Northern Ireland capital.

About a thousand police officers from mainland Britain had been sent to Northern Ireland in anticipation of tensions over the traditional Twelfth of July parades.

That event is the climax of the Protestant Orange Order's marching season.

The July 12 parade marks the victory of Protestant king William III of Orange over the deposed Catholic king James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

It is a flashpoint for tensions between the Protestant and Catholic communities in the province.

Northern Ireland was devastated by three decades of sectarian violence in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mr
Date : 17 Jul 2013 02:41
 
Dozens of police injured in Belfast clashes

Dozens of police were injured in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast on Friday night in clashes with pro-British Protestants protesting against a parade by Catholic republicans.

Some 56 police officers were injured, four requiring hospital treatment, when they were attacked with bricks, bottles and other missiles by crowds in the city centre, police said on Saturday.

Several cars were set on fire, while police used water cannon and fired baton rounds to try to disperse the rioters.

Seven people were arrested for offences ranging from riotous behaviour to hijacking, and Northern Ireland police chief Matt Baggott warned that many more arrests would follow.

"Those people had no intention of peaceful protest," he said.

"They lack self respect and they lack dignity."

The city's prisons would be "bulging" once all the culprits were rounded up, he said.

Belfast is currently hosting thousands of former police and fire officers from around the globe, who are in town for the World Police And Fire Games.

Protestant loyalist protesters had tried to block part of the route of a planned republican parade marking the anniversary of the introduction by British authorities of internment without trial on August 9, 1971.

It was one of the most controversial policies of The Troubles, the three decades of civil unrest in Northern Ireland between pro-British Protestants and Catholic republicans favouring a united Ireland.

Nearly 2,000 people were held without trial under the policy, the vast majority of them republicans.

Internment lasted until 1975. It was intended to restore order in the British province, but the deeply unpopular policy ultimately boosted recruitment to the paramilitary Irish Republican Army.

There were also clashes on Thursday night at an anti-internment bonfire near Belfast city centre, when eight police officers were injured and eight people were arrested.

Last month the city was hit by several nights of rioting, mainly by loyalist groups.

More than 3,500 people died during Northern Ireland's three decades of sectarian strife.

The 1998 Good Friday agreement, which set up a power-sharing government between republicans and loyalists, largely ended the violence, although sporadic attacks and bomb threats continue.


Source : Sapa-AFP /gq
Date : 10 Aug 2013 13:51
 
Matt Baggott is an assshat. He should rein his own idiots in first and his responses will only generate more violence. Then he'll lose complete control and the troops will be back . Wait and watch.
 
If there is a day that upsets people and causes violence why on earth do they make a big deal over it? Just carry on, geez it happened in the 1600's.
 
killadoob said:
If there is a day that upsets people and causes violence why on earth do they make a big deal over it? Just carry on, geez it happened in the 1600's.
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read last post its a meeting of police chiefs in the city interrupted by a differen protest

Protestant loyalist protesters had tried to block part of the route of a planned republican parade marking the anniversary of the introduction by British authorities of internment without trial on August 9, 1971.
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internment lasted til about 75/76 . The Maze days.
 
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Look at the video and see just how violent the poisoned minds of a new generation of Protestant kids. Hatred instilled by their parents,
Also incredible is for all their fancy riot gear 26 policemen were injured...
The new gear is shiit.

their riot shields are shiit
in the army when we were fcuccking up the civvies
our riot shields went all the way to the floor and interlocked with the trooper next to you so everyone held the line
if anyone grabbed the top of your shield you whacked his hand with your baton and sometimes chopped fingers off
that learnd the fcuckers
the guys behind would lean in and shoot gas an non lethal straight into anyone in front of us - those were the days
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b7_1376161247#u4lLhuUt87jpPZk8.99
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b7_1376161247
 
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