A Community Fights Back
Danny Morrison
On this day, August 9th, thirty one years ago, the British government introduced internment without trial in the North, locking up in prison camps civil rights and students organisers, republicans who had been last active in the 1950s and a handful of IRA activists. Most IRA people escaped the swoops. Initially used exclusively against nationalists, nationalist areas immediately erupted. In the week which followed over twenty five people were killed and scores seriously wounded. (Later, in Derry, the thirteen people shot dead were killed while they were on an anti-internment march.) Every year, the week around August 9th with its demonstrations and street clashes was perhaps the most dangerous time of the year to live in or visit West Belfast.
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