marching, throwing terror. But this year, Anglo-Irish Accord becomes even particularly chilling.
The children, their homes and property.
by Loyalist paramilitaries on ting makeshift barricades.
North Belfast were attacked.
Woodside Estate began tionalist taxi driver, Belfast.
On 12 July every Dervock, Dunloy, magh and Derry.
of the border, Unionist Party MP Peter Robinson.
armed WILl THE SUMMER period of sectarian loyalist marches is always a tense one for the nationalist community in the North of Ireland. It is a time when loyalist blood runs hot -bottles, asserting their so called 'British' identity by a reign of as the reality of the clearer, the period of summer Loyalist marches was marching season reached its first peak around 12 July. After weeks of inflamatory outbursts by Unionist politicians the loyalists vented their feelings in attacks on Catholic women, men, Two young married men were shot and killed 12 July itself in Belfast. According to official RUC figures, which grossly underestimate the real situation, there were 71 attacks over the weekend of the twelfth. Na. tionalists defended their areas as best they could, in some places such as Dunloy and Ligonield erecThe marches on the twelfth were preceded by a series of attacks earlier in July in Belfast. On Friday 4 July several homes in the Oldpark area of On 10 July mobs in the predominantly Loyalist Portadown attacked nationalist homes with stones and petrol bombs.
On 10 July Loyalist mobs armed with axes attacks in Manor Street in North Belfast while RUC landrovers stood by. On 11 July a naand a young nationalist woman, were fired on by Loyalist mobs in North Catholic business in the village of Kilkeel was attacked. On 14. July petrol bomb attacks were carried out against Catholle homes in the Lower Falls Road area on Belfast. Other petrol bomb attacks took place in Lisburn, Ballyabinch Ahogli, Rasharkin, Limvady, Ballymoney, Maghera, ArThis is the background to the much publicised loyalist march into the village of Clontibret, south which was led by Democratic Just before 2 am on 7 August, several hundred cudgels, wearing balaclava masks, invaded Clonibret. The loyalists daubed 'Ulster has awakened' on the local school, uprooted sighposts, trees, and gates and attacked The loyalists then marched in paramilitary formation to the crossroads at the centre of the village in an incident not widely reported on British television, 500 Loyalists, in around 150 cars, attacked the mainly Catholic village of Swatragh. The armed loyalists set up roadblocks, began searching cars, smashed win.
On 12 August the British army was directly complicit in a further loyalist show of strength in RUC saturated the na.
The Loyalists, Democratic Unionist Party leaders Paisley and Five days earlier, on 7 August, the loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) had released a video to the press announcing their intention of stepping up the sectarian murder of Catholics. The UFF were rightly termed by Sinn Fein presideni "tolerated by the British government because their murder the : classical "counter-gang strategy" perfected by the British government in What is taking place in the North of Ireland is clear. It has nothing to do with 'Catholic versus - as it is portrayed by the It is a systematic campaign by loyalist bigots, acting with the protection of the RUC and British army, to try to break the will of There is going to be no end to this type of loyalist bigot violence until Britain gets out of