Word: lenadoon
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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PEACE, proclaimed the banner at the head of the procession. The marchers were 3,000 war-weary Catholics from the Lenadoon Avenue district of West Belfast. After the two-week-old cease-fire broke down, Lenadoon Avenue became a no man's land between British troops and I.R.A. guerrillas. The marchers, blankets and belongings in hand, had finally decided to evacuate their homes and bed down in nearby public schools until the fighting eased. Long before they had a chance to consider returning home, all talk of peace was shattered by the worst bombing attack in Ulster...
Three nights after Whitelaw's appearance in Parliament, the worst fighting of the guerrilla war broke out. I.R.A. terrorists stepped up their sniping attack on the army outpost in Belfast's Lenadoon Avenue by rolling a bulldozer laden with a 50-lb. gelignite bomb toward the sandbagged building. Though I.R.A. men fired on the rolling bomb, only a portion of the gel ignite exploded. The army responded by going on the offensive against I.R.A. strongholds, dispatching 700 troops to the Lenadoon Avenue area alone. Soon firing flared up in half a dozen Catholic areas, perhaps to divert troops...
...Most of Lenadoon's 6000 residents marched away from their homes in protest against the British military presence they said made the area a battleground. Most of the evacuees have stayed away...
...spokesman said the army had moved into the Lenadoon area only after four days and nights of IRA attacks on security forces...
...community leaders persuaded the IRA not to use Lenadoon for attacks British troops would be progressively withdrawn, the spokesman said. The IRA said earlier it would not agree to a ceasefire...