1969 AD - 5

                                                                                                                              "United Nations Peace Keeping Force Requested."

1969 AD August 2nd:  In  the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province by the British Imperial Coalition Government and still under the control of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Governmentt there was further serious "rioting"in Belfast in Co. Antrim involving the Ascendancy "Official Unionist R.U.C. police, the Irish Catholics and the non - Catholics, and the Shankhill Road area was "damaged" and the Irish Catholic block of flats were "besieged," and they had to erect more "barricades" there also, as 80 people and 17 "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police were injured.

"August 4th: "Sectarian" riots occurred once again in Belfast  in Co. Antrim in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, still under the control of the British Imperial Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government.

August 8th: Major James Chichester - Clark the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Prime Minister in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, went over to London to discuss the situation again with James Callaghan the British Labour Government's Home Secretary and their Lieutenant General Sir Ian Freeland the British Imperial Military Commander who was briefed to be ready with his contingent made up of a 2,700 British Imperial Military Force in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province.

August 12th: On this day, "thousands" of the Unionist Apprentice Boys Association / Masonic Association marched through Derry in Co. Derry, one of the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned"  from the 9 Countes in the Ulster Province, under the control of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, who were once again celebrating the previous lifting of the siege on Derry against James 11 the Catholic English King nearly 300 years before, and they paraded around the City of Derry "taunting" the Catholic Irish in the Bogside area, who "retaliated" once again with stones, and as they carried out their parade through Waterloo Place adjacent to the River Foyle further "conflict" also began between the Irish Catholics there and the non - Catholics. The "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police then moved in and the it all just got worse, as the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police pushed the Irish Catholics further down the street towards the Irish Catholic Bogside area, where the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police forces were to be also constantly "re - enforced," while in the meantime the Irish Catholics who were further down in the Bogside area saw them coming, and then "major" clashes also occurred at William and Rossville Streets, and by 5 p.m. there was fighting at the "barricades," and the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police then started using"teargas" and the whole community, including women and children were to soon become involved in it all. The non - Catholic antagonists were now in "behind" the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police and following them along while "hurling" petrol bombs and "burning" the nearby Irish Catholic buildings as they went, including their "shops," while putting on "helmets and shields" to join in with the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police who moved in once again. "Rioting" soon followed on from this as the barricades, the Irish Catholic defenders had erected, were "burnt," and more "petrol bombs" were then thrown, which was to culminate in what is now known as the "Battle of the Bogside" that was to last for 2 days in which the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police used massive amounts of "gas" against the Irish Catholics there, who were forced to soak their handkerchiefs in "lemon juice," and smear "Vaseline" over their bodies to protect themselves from the " gas." This use of "increased" amounts of "gas" on the Irish population there was to cause the "riots" to then "spread" to other "towns" who were to be also under the same type of "onslaught" by the non - Catholic mobs who were as usual "egged" on by the Paisleyites, and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government then sent in their "Official" Unionist "B" Special Reserve police forces to the Irish Catholic areas of Belfast in Co. Antrim, and Bernadette Devlin was to be among those who were involved in organizing the "defences" there. She was now sure that this particular all out "onslaught" on the population in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province would surely see an "intervention" by the British Labour Government in England, who were in fact "morally responsible" for it all in the first place. In another of these 6 Counties at Armagh in Co. Armagh the "Official" Unionist "B" Special Reserve police fired "directly" into a crowd "killing" a Catholic there.

    Wednesday saw the present ongoing ethnic sectarian "Troubles" drag on into Thursday, and during the night throughout Derry in Co. Derry, the non - Catholic mobs continued to "roam" the city of Derry wreaking havoc wherever they could, even to "attacking" the Press headquarters at the City Hotel, and the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police on this occasion also stood by and did "nothing" to stop them from going further and nearly 600 "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police were now involved in it all and the Irish Catholic "leaders" in the Bogside area were now calling on the British Labour Government and the Ascendancy "Official " Unionist Government and other Irish Catholic Committees in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and also the Irish Republic to give "aid," "medical supplies" and "gas masks," but received little response. There were also to be "demonstrations" carried out in Dublin by the Irish population there for the Irish Republic Government to immediately "intervene" to stop the terrible "violence" occurring there in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, and many there in "desperation" personally headed "north" to join in the defence, and there was also an "Anti - Treaty IRA" call to "arms" with little result, as they too were relying on the Irish Republic Government to do "something." The end result to it all was that 10 people were to be "killed" there, including 2 children, with 1,600 people "injured" and a further 200 more "homes" were to be destroyed and after 24 hours of constant "conflict" the "Official" Unionist R.U.C police and their "B" Special police retired exhausted and the Irish Catholics in the Bogside then set up "No Go" areas proclaiming the area as "Free Derry."  

      Major James Dawson Chichester  - Clark the Ascendancy "Official " Unionist Prime Minister in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the Ulster Province, who would not move to "ban" the provocative ethnic and sectarian Apprentice Boys Association march, now requested the use of further British Imperial Military Forces, but the British Labour Government representatives in England, James Callaghan their Home Secretary, and Denis Healey their Secretary of State for Defence, made it abundantly clear to the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government that they first had to "commit" all of their "Official" Unionist R.U.C. and "B" Special police, who were by now their most "discredited" forces, against the individual mobs again before they would send in any further British Imperial Army Forces. Meanwhile the hard - line ethnic and religious fanatic, the Rev. Ian Paisley's "Volunteer Forces" / UVF began to form again to take up any of the "opportunities" that should arise to push along their degenerate "ethnic sectarian" agenda. 

August 13th: The Irish Republic Government now under Jack Lynch the "leader" of the Fianna Fail Party came out on T.V. stating that the Fianna Fail Government  could no longer "stand by" and watch the innocent Catholic Irish people there in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, suffer their injuries "needlessly," and having to fight to continue on with their lives there, with no one to "defend or protect" them so he moved the Irish Government troops to the "north" to the "artificial border" were they constructed "Field Hospitals" to treat the people who had been injured in these conficts in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province who were among those who were "fleeing" for their lives out of the Bogside area and across the "artificial border" into the safety of the Irish Republic. He also created a "Refugee Centre" for those who were O.K. and able to "escape" from the ongoing violence, while threatening "intervention," but hoping it all would settle down and Patrick Hillery the Irish Republic Foreign Minister called for the United Nations to intervene in the whole affair, by urging the Security Council to send in a "Peace Keeping Force" and requested direct talks between the Governments of Britain and Ireland to stop the "ongoing" sectariana and ethnic violence." The British Labour Government's response to all this continuing "mayhem" was to pull out all the stops at the United Nations to ensure that this intervention did not happen and in fact sent more British Imperial Military Forces into these 6 Counties in Ulster Province in Ireland. Meanwhile the remaining  Irish Catholics living in the surrounding areas in these 6 Counties also now came out on the streets to take the "heat of" of the Irish Catholics in the Bogside area. 

August 14th: On the Thursday evening a "riot" also developed in another of these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, in Armagh in Co. Armagh, with the Irish Catholics up against the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist R.U.C. and their "B" Special police again, where "shooting" occurred and another Irish Catholic was "killed" there, while the Irish Catholic area of the Falls Road, the Shankhill Road and the Crumlin Road all ran parallel out of Belfast in Co. Antrim, and even further out was the Ardoyne region, where the Irish Catholics there were "surrounded" by the non - Catholics, and the Irish Catholic families there were now "physically evicted" from that area in alarming numbers. The worst "sectarian riots" that had ever occurred in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in Ulster Province were to be carried out on this day in West Belfast when the Shankhill non - Catholic vigilantes, who were wearing white arm bands and were well organized, "attacked" the Catholic Irish in the Falls Road area "burning" down several more Irish Catholic "homes" and where the non - Catholic mob were "once again" allowed to join in with the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police force. There were further "riots" during the night in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, at Armagh, Belfast, Dungannon, Dungiven, Enniskillen and Coalisland, as the "Official"" Unionist R.U.C. police stations there eventually also came under attack with shootings occurring in Dungiven and Dungannon and the "Official"" Unionist R.U.C. police opened "fire" on the Irish Catholics there and within 24 hours 10 people were "killed" and 100 injured.

     The Ascendancy "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police in the Falls Road came into conflict, and further "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police and  their "B" Special police were brought in as "reinforcements" in armoured cars, to create the most devastating battle yet to occur, while in the Divas Flats, above this area, there was also conflict between the ""Official" Unionist R.U.C police in armoured cars and the Irish Catholic population there and "baton charges" were then carried out with riot shields, and this developed into a hand to hand conflict, as the population there tried to "defend" themselves against the onslaught, and "fires" broke out in the shops as the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police and their "B" Special police were now backed up by the non - Catholic mobs "again" who were in the side streets. Meanwhile the trouble in the Falls Road was also getting worse, and there were "fires" everywhere, and the Irish Catholics were running for cover as "live ammunition" was now being used with the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police firing "indiscriminately" and there was gunfire everywhere. The unrelenting mayhem was to continue on until "dawn" as the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. and the their "B" Special police and the non - Catholic mobs continued with their attacks on the "homes" and the factories in the Catholic Falls Road area. Eventually 2 of the "Official"" Unionist R.U.C. police were also "shot" in Dover street and the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police then sprayed "machine gun" fire into the Divas Flats where they "killed" a 9 year old boy who was hiding under a bed, while another man was "killed" on the top of the flats. Meanwhile down at the Ardoyne area the Irish Catholics who were behind the "barricades" there were also fired upon by the "Official"" Unionist R.U.C. police and the non - Catholic mobs, and 3 of the "Official" Unionist R.U.C. and 50 civilians were also wounded and by the morning there was still spasmodic firing in the Falls Road area as the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government's R.U.C. police and "B" Special police gradually withdrew from the area with 6 people "killed" in Belfast during the night, with one of these also being a non - Catholic, with 105 people injured officially, and another 100 homes totally destroyed, which were basically all Irish Catholic homes.

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