Britannia waives the rules | The Twelfth

Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams · Jul 16, 2023 · 18m

Britannia waives the rules – again

Internment was introduced 52 years ago next month on 9 August 1971. In the early hours of that morning 342 men and boys from nationalist homes across the North were dragged from their homes. Many were badly beaten and forced to run a gauntlet of battle wielding British soldiers. 14 – The Hooded Men - were subjected to days of sustained torture. It was a traumatic moment for society in the North. In Ballymurphy ten local people were shot to death by the British Army. Another man died of a heart attack when accosted by them.

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