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by NeedMoreTea 2561 days ago
After intense fighting between the catholics and loyalists in the 1969 riots, and the IRA petrol bombing and shooting at police - unprovoked. Nearly 2,000 casualties of the IRA campaign - nearly all unarmed.

Yet I don't condone the use of internment - even if I do understand how and why it happened. All it did was intensify the already high tensions.