It is 50 years since internment without trial was introduced in Northern Ireland to try to deal with a worsening security situation in the early s. Rather than reduce disorder, violence increased after internment began on 9 August The Stormont government ordered the crackdown; those suspected of creating trouble could be held without trial.
One of the unionist ministers involved in the Stormont administration at the time believes it was the right policy. John Taylor, now Lord Kilclooney, said: "I supported it. The reason why was that it was the only way of bringing the IRA to heel. Violence had broken out two years earlier in what became known as the Troubles. The military-backed Operation Demetrius, as it was officially known, led to people being detained across Northern Ireland on 9 August.
Twenty-five people died in street violence in the four days after the policy was introduced, including victims of the Ballymurphy shootings. Sunday 17 October It was estimated that approximately 16, households were withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party SDLP.
The campaign was in protest against Internment and had begun on 15 August The protest took place near to 10 Downing Street in London. Tuesday 16 November The report of the Compton inquiry was published. Report of the enquiry into allegations against the security forces of physical brutality in Northern Ireland arising out of events on the 9th August, November ; Cmnd. The report acknowledged that there had been ill-treatment of internees what was termed 'in-depth interrogation but rejected claims of systematic brutality or torture.
Tuesday 30 November The government of the Republic of Ireland stated that it would take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights.
Saturday 22 January An anti-internment march was held at Magilligan strand, County Derry, with several thousand people taking part. As the march neared the internment camp it was stopped by members of the Green Jackets and the Parachute Regiment of the British Army, who used barbed wire to close off the beach. When it appeared that the marchers were going to go around the wire, the army then fired rubber bullets and CS gas at close range into the crowd.
A number of witnesses claimed that the paratroopers who had been bused from Belfast to police the march severely beat protesters and had to be physically restrained by their own officers. John Hume accused the soldiers of "beating, brutalising and terrorising the demonstrators".
There was also an anti-internment parade in Armagh, County Armagh. He also asked that the march be allowed to take place without military intervention. The march left, late 2. People joined the march along its entire route.
At approximately 3. Estimates of the number of marchers at this point vary. Some observers put the number as high as 20, whereas the Widgery Report estimated the number at between 3, and 5, Around 3. However a section of the crowd continued along William Street to the British Army barricade. A riot developed. Confrontations between the Catholic youth of Derry and the British Army had become a common feature of life in the city and many observers reported that the rioting was not particularly intense.
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