Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More killing seemed inevitable. The militantly Protestant Ulster Defense Association, which only two months ago pledged that it would do "all in its power" to prevent back-street murders, announced at midweek that it could no longer control Protestant extremists. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army, in an...
The renewed sequence of assassinations came as a shock to Ulstermen; since Christmas, the atmosphere in Belfast had been almost benign. British patrols had seemingly pacified the East Belfast area that had been the scene of many "sectarian" killings-the term routinely used in Ulster to describe cases where victims...
That was only the beginning. Phillip Rafferty, a Catholic youth of 14, disappeared while on his way from home to a band practice; his body, with bullet wounds in the head, was later found five miles out of Belfast. Another Catholic, Gabriel Savage, 17, was pulled from his girl friend...
By week's end, the death toll also included British Army Sergeant William Boardley, who was shot while setting up a checkpoint on the motorway, and Robert Burns, 18, a Protestant. Burns was killed by machine-gun fire from a car passing a group of men who were standing...
Many basic civil rights have long been denied Catholics in Northern Ireland and until a few years ago a Protestant paramilitary force, the B Specials, policed the Catholic ghetto there. The Catholic South, on the other hand, has for years maintained one of the most repressive censorships in Western Europe...