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[glenshane]

@Cheasty

The British Army were welcomed into Catholic areas when they came in. The Provos, most of whose founders were from the south, were intent on changing this both because they saw it as a humiliation that it was the British Army which had protected Catholics from Loyalist mobs and because they wanted war.

The mask slips. A lad who went from being anti-pakastani and anti-traveller to woke warrior somehow manages to stay consistently west brit in outlook

[Cheasty]

Who would have guessed Dungiven’s village idiot and chief racist and genocide apologist would throw his toys out of the pram when presented with some pesky facts.

[LionelRitchie]

[Thomas_Brady]

The looney left have moved more and more to defend many of the things they once stood against. It’s fascinating to watch…

How many Catholics were burned out of their homes while these British ‘peace keepers’ were looking on?

[glenshane]

Shur they were just keeping the peace when their finger slipped on the trigger

[Thomas_Brady]

And shur, the formation of the UDR by the British Army in that first year was all about peace keeping .

[binkybarnes]

@Cheasty

That’s literally what happened. The Provos were formed to go to war against the Brits. Understandably enough, there was then no tenable way the Brits could be peacekeepers

Ah @Cheasty . When did you turn into Eoghan Harris?

[Cheasty]

The lack of education about the Troubles among some posters here is frightening.

[Cheasty]

Point out what is non-factual about the post.

That’s the problem lads here have.

They don’t like pesky facts. It’s Putin-esque in its own way.

[Thomas_Brady]

Saturday 27 September 1969
There was serious violence in parts of Belfast. Following a rally in the Ulster Hall a group of Loyalists began to attach Catholic homes in Coates Street, west Belfast. Petrol bombs were thrown over the Peace Line from Sackville Street. Five Catholic homes were destroyed by fire. Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers and British Army soldiers were present in the area but, apparently, were unable to prevent the attack. (This incident was said to have badly affected the confidence of the Catholic community in the British army.) When a loyalist crowd approached the Catholic Unity Flats, shots were fired into the crowd and at least one person was injured.

[Cheasty]

Day the troops marched in to nationalist welcome

The arrival of British troops was greeted with jubilation by Catholics, who viewed it as a sign that the RUC had been defeated, and the images of smiling nationalists 30 years ago still linger in the memory of many.

Tea, soup and sympathy were dispensed by Catholic women on a regular basis to the soldiers as they manned “peace lines” of barbed wire they had erected to separate the Protestant and Catholic areas. The Irish News said that while the introduction of British troops was “a drastic step . . . If the presence of troops means the withdrawal from Derry of the RUC riot squads and the hundreds of armed Orangemen . . . it may be the first step along the road to peace.”

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The emotion felt by Catholics was expressed in a report by the Irish News. A resident from the staunchly republican Ardoyne area told a reporter: "The British troops were given a splendid welcome and the residents of Ardoyne felt relief at the sight of them, and relationships with these soldiers has been tremendous up to now.

“Let us hope that this will continue to be the case despite the odd rumour that petitions are being given out to get rid of the troops . . . The people who are behind these petitions had their chance in the past to do something for the area and lost it . . .”

[Thomas_Brady]

Orange marches protected.

Tuesday 31 March 1970
item mark There were riots in the Springfield Road area of Belfast following an Orange parade. The British Army used ‘snatch squads’ to make arrests of Catholic youths. The confrontations were intense with 38 soldiers injured together with an unknown number of civilians. The Army used CS gas for the first time in large quantities.

[glenshane]

In fairness the ‘security forces’ did protect the loyalist mob. Maybe some particularly magnamimous nationalists welcomed this?

[Thomas_Brady]

Peace keeping…

Wednesday 1 April 1970
UDR Began Operations
Serious riots continued in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast between Catholic residents and the British Army.
The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) became operational. The UDR was introduced to replace the ‘B-Specials’ (the Ulster Special Constabulary). The UDR was a locally recruited regiment of the British Army. Roy Hattersley, then Minister of Defence, visited Northern Ireland to mark the occasion. [Initially Catholics formed 18 per cent of the membership of the UDR, however it was to become almost exclusively Protestant and in its time attract almost as much controversy as the ‘B-Specials’. Many ex-members of the ‘B-Specials’ joined the new force.]

[Cheasty]

The pro-imperial genocide posters are seething.

[glenshane]

It was all the fault of the taigs really

[Thomas_Brady]

We know that… Despite 90% of the violence being driven by prods, it was the taigs what done it. That’s why a curfew was put on the falls road in that first year of peace keeping.

[Cheasty]

You can see why the @glenshane and @Thomas_Brady are pro-imperial genocide.

Fake history begins at home.

[glenshane]

@Cheasty is the dud in ruth dudley edwards

[Cheasty]

You weren’t so worried about who was to blame to for violence when you were beating your wives up.