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You absolute clown, the reason the british troops were there in 1st place was to protect the Catholics from being burnt out of their homes by loyalist terror groups.
FA to do with the IRA at the time. |
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Ah, I think you will find it was the IRA planting the bombs , and murdering the soldiers , and killing the innocent men women and children
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The troops were brought in to quell rioting in Derry and Belfast after the apprentice boys parade that year nothing to do with the IRA who had little support from the nationalist community at the time anyway, what made the situation worse was the deployment of the B specials to help the ruc, these were nothing but thugs in a uniform.
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13 Nov 18 11:42 Joined: 06 Nov 11 | Topic/replies: 28,776 | Blogger: lfc1971's blog Ah, I think you will find it was the IRA planting the bombs , and murdering the soldiers , and killing the innocent men women and children Well said lfc1971, although there were a great number of tit for tit killings between the Protestants and the Catholics. Because the IRA were involved and carrying out most of the car bombings, then it was inevitable that the British Army had to concentrate more on the Catholic community in their search for weapons, bomb making materials and IRA members. So the Catholics thought they were unfairly targeted and rapidly turned against the British Army. But the job of the British Army was to maintain peace. Should the Paras have been sent out, I don't know? Like the Marines these men are our elite troops. Look what these units did for us in the Falklands. |
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The B specials were disbanded the whole of the RUC had to be suspect because of their Protestant bias.
But this has been reformed. N.Ireland is trapped in history, in my opinion. One would have thought the Battle of the Boyne took place recently and the apprentice boys defence of Derry. |