1971 AD - 3 - August

                                                                                                                                            "Gerry Fitt To the United Nations."

August 1st:  In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Ciounties in the Ulster Province, by the British Imperial Coalition Government the British Conservative Government's Imperial Military Forces began carrying out "raids" on the "homes" again.

August 5th:  In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province by the British Imperial Coalition Government Brian Faulkner the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Prime Minister in the Stormont Government and the British Imperial Government's Military General Tuzo flew over to England to obtain, "Internment without Trial," under Article No.12 of the Special Powers Act from the British Conservative Government for anyone in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province who they "suspected" and he also "banned" all marches in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province for one year, but the "N.I.C.R.A. / Civil Rights Association" and the "Anti - Treaty P.I.R.A. / Provisional Anti - Treaty IRA" endeavouring to resist any further repression "continued" to organize them in an attempt to bring about pressure for further "reform."

August 7th:  In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, a British Imperial Military soldier "killed" Harry Thornton, a 34 year old welder who was also an Irish Catholic father of 6 children while he was "driving" along the Springfield Road after his van had "backfired," and the British Imperial Military Forces were eventually to "admit" to the "killing," but not until some months later and Francis Cunningham a 13 year old youth was also "killed" accidently during the protests, and was to be the "last" and 29th victim of the continuing "Troubles" to die this year in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province. The immediate result was that Belfast in Co. Antrim went up in flames, and by the end of the weekend 2 more British Imperial Military soldiers were "shot and wounded" and there were now more British Imperial Military Forces being sent over to these 6 Counties in Ulster Province by the British Conservative Government in England.   

August 9th: In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, Brian Faulkner the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Prime Minister in the Stormont Parliament, introduced, "Internment without Trial" into these 6 Counties in Ulster Province still under their control, and at 4.15 a.m. in the morning the British Conservative Government Imperial Military Forces began "raiding" the Irish Catholic areas again with 3 soldiers in each squad concentrating on each individual Irishman they had on their lists, and the women and children there were out "banging" their dust bin lids on the pavement as a "warning" that these on going "raids" were occurring. Within 24 hours 342 Irish Catholic men were "Interned without Trial," and the British Military Forces were to be have to release one third of these within 48 hours as they found that all of the people they were really after were "missing," and all they had done was to "increase" the Irish Catholic "resentment" even further creating more "recruits" for the "Anti - Treaty I.R.A."

      Meanwhile, Charles Haughey in the Irish Republic spoke out "against" the continuing "artificial partition" of Ireland, as it was in "reality" by now the sectarian Ascendancy "overall rule" was a total failure, and he again wanted the United Nations to bring in a Peace Keeping Force on the basis that the British Conservative Government had not continued to bring in any further "positive reforms" to end all of the injustices, in these 6 Counties carried out against the Irish Catholic population there, and he also demanded the "removal" of all the British Imperial Military Army Forces from there.    

August 10th:  In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, 500 Irish Catholic men suspected of being Irish Nationalists were taken by the British Imperial Military Forces and "interned" in the camps at Girdwood Park Army Camp in Belfast in Co. Antrim were 185 were eventually placed, with 117 of these eventually being charged there with some offence or other, to try and "legitimise" this wholesale "illegitimate" action, while the others were taken to Magilligan Camp, which was 20 miles north of Derry in Co. Derry, and Ballykinler Camp in Co. Down, were they were held for 2 days in "detention" until the British Military or the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government could come up with some "trumped up" charges against them. 10 more people were also to be "killed" on this day, including 7 men, 1 woman and 2 more British Imperial Military soldiers and Sarah Worthington, the deceased woman among them was a non - Catholic who had been actually "killed" by a British Imperial Military soldier, but at this time they continued to "blame" the "Anti - Treaty I.R.A," until 3 months later, when they had to "admit" at the inquest that they knew all along that it was one of their own British Imperial Military soldiers. One of those also "killed" in this massive round up, and the "first" to be "killed," was Patrick Mac Adorey a 25 year old man from the Ardoyne district who was shot and killed in Jamaica Street and an additional 346 people were rounded up in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province and "imprisoned" by out of date Ascendancy "Official" Unionist RUC police lists, and "all" of these were Irish Catholics, which further increased the resentment and the turmoil and also the support for the "Anti - Treaty I.R.A." to assist them now, as they had"no one else" to protect them. A result of all of this particular mayhem was that further "rioting" now occurred and it spread and only worsened over the next 2 days and on the following Tuesday 240 more "homes" were burnt in Belfast in Co. Antrim alone, and by Wednesday night 23 more people were "dead" and 7,000 Irish Catholics fled across the "artificial border" as further "blatant ethnic and religious cleansing" occurred in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, and to provide for this the Irish Republic Government in the other 26 Counties set up "refugee camps" there in the Irish Republic.

       12 of the Irish Catholic men who were taken into custody in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province and still under the control of the British Imperial Conservative Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government in the Stormont Parliament were removed for "special treatment" illegally for 6 days of "hell" to Ballykinler Camp in Co. Down by the British Imperial Military Forces where they were interrogated using appalling "inhuman" measures to obtain information, as they were handed over to the British Secret Service and the British Ministry of Defence / M.i5 under David Eastwood the British Imperial Government's Director of Intelligence in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province. He permanently kept "bags" over their "heads" the whole time, and made them stand against a wall with their legs spread apart for up to 2 days and none were allowed to "sleep" at all for the first few days and included among them were Kevin Hannaway and Francis Mac Guigan, and the "tortuous methods" used against them were so bad that the British Conservative Government were forced later on to allow a "Tribunal of Inquiry" and a Committee of Privy Councillors to be set up in which Lord Gardiner declared, "It was illegal and not morally justified."    

      In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, the Rev. Ian Paisley the hard - line Unionist ethnic and religious fanatic, who had previously founded his own Free Presbyterian Church, now founded the Democratic Unionist Party, and the Unionist Defence Association / Unionist Volunteers was also formed by the Unionists themselves who were to eventually resort to "slitting the throats" of the Irish Catholic population although they had been originally founded to take on the Irish Catholic youth "street gangs" in the Shankhill Road area and keep these 6 Counties in Ulster Province within the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and maintain their independence under the Ascendancy, but once again "power corrupts" and total power totally corrupts.  

       In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, the "Provisional Anti - Treaty I.R.A. / Provos" were now in a position to go on the "offensive" against an enemy that now presented itself as an "occupying" force carrying out British Imperial Military "oppression," that was once again "condoned" by the British Conservative Government, who from their perspective were still well and truly in "occupation" of these 6 Irish Counties in Ulster Province.

August 12th: Jack Lynch the Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland wanted the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government "abolished" in these 6 Counties that had been "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and put forward a Power - Sharing proposition for both the "artificially partitioned" parts of Ireland to bring about "peace and unification."

     In these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province itself, completely disgusted and frustrated with the whole sorry mess Gerry Fitt the leader of the political S.D.L. Party / Social Democratic Labour Party called for "Civil" disobedience, for no rents to be paid on Catholic housing estates, no electricity or gas bills, except for one in each street to keep it connected, and a complete boycott of all Local Government positions there.  

      The Unionists in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, were now actively circulating their intention to form a Military Force of their own, which eventually was to surface as the Para - Military Defence Association, and this was also brought on by the "Internment without Trial" fiasco, and to also defend the Unionist areas and take on the "Anti - Treaty I.R.A."   

August 21st: The "Anti - Treaty I.R.A." who were in Co. Monaghan in Southern Ulster in the Irish Republic put a forward a commonsense proposal that Ireland should be re - united made up of 4 Regional Parliaments with the Ulster Province to be known as Dail Uladh, and the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, to be re - united with its other 3 Counties.

      John Hume and Ivar Cooper from the political S.D.L. P / Social Democratic Labour Party in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, were now also "arrested" for participating at a "Civil Rights" rally in Derry in Co. Derry, and there was a "bombing campaign" also being carried out in Belfast in Co. Antrim and this period was to see the culmination of the "worst violence" that had ever occurred in these 6 Counties  in the Ulster Province, up to this date, with 15 more people being "killed" and 174 were to be "killed" before the end of this year, as the Irish Catholic "refugees" from the ongoing violence continued to stream across the "artificial border" into the Irish Republic for "protection" were 4,500 were to be settled in the camps set up there by the Republic of Ireland Government.

August 25th: Gerry Fitt the leader of the political S..D.L. Party / Social Democratic Labour Party went to New York were he requested the United Nations to send "observers" to these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, to witness for themselves the "continuing brutality" occurring there under the auspices of the British Conservative Government and the Ascendancy"Official" Unionist Stormont Government.

August 26th: Harold Wilson the British Labour leader who was now in the "Opposition" at Westminster in England, attacked Edward Heath the British Prime Minister verbally and his Conservative Government's, "Internment without Trial" in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, on the basis that it was only "recruiting" many more "Anti - Treaty I.R.A." leaders for the "future" and Reginald Maudling the British Conservative Government's Overseerer of these 6 Counties in the Ulster Province, called for "round table talks" on the future of these 6 Counties in Ulster Province, but it was completely "ignored."

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