N. IRELAND: BRITISH ARMY ENDS DAILY PATROLS ON STREETS OF BELFAST
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- (12 Sep 1998) English/Nat
The British Army has held the last of its daily patrols on the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland's capital.
Almost thirty years after the decision to deploy British troops at the beginning of the troubles, the Army is being withdrawn from Belfast as part of the Northern Ireland Peace process.
The symbolic last patrol signals hope that an end may be in sight to the guerrilla violence that has plagued the Northern Ireland capital for decades.
However military patrols will continue in other parts of the province.
Hopes for lasting peace have been a long time coming for the people of Northern Ireland.
On Saturday another small step towards an end to the troubles was made as the daily patrols of the streets of Belfast by the British army finally came to an end.
This symbolic last patrol is being carried out by A Company of the Ist Battalion the
Staffordshire Regiment who are half way through a six month tour of duty.
The move has been made possible by a new found confidence amongst peace negotiators that guerrilla violence is going to cease.
Army patrols in Protestant and Catholic strongholds of Belfast became a regular feature of life in this bustling city.
There were mixed reactions to the news.
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"Well, I suppose it signifies really that the end of whatever has happened, hopefully, for the past 25 or so years. You can see a difference, you know, I mean, if you don't see the troops, you know something is different, more normal I suppose."
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"Well it means you haven't got foreigners in your country, patrolling the streets with guns in their hands. You know? And it is probably better for them as they probably are glad too that they are not walking round the streets of Belfast waiting for someone to shoot them."
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It is not the first time that the troops have been withdrawn.
It happened in 1994 following a ceasefire by the mainstream Irish Republican Army (I-R-A) and its Protestant guerrilla rivals.
However, following a wave of killings this year, the streets once again resounded to the sound of marching feet.
Now, all but one of the array of pro-British and republican armed groups which have waged war for thirty years, have declared a ceasefire.
The only group not to support the peace agreement is the small Continuity I-R-A which is made up of hardline defectors from the mainstream I-R-A.
The withdrawal comes a day after the first guerrilla prisoners were released from jail under the terms agreed in the 'Good Friday' peace accord signed in April.
The accord resulted in a power-sharing assembly with limited powers to govern Northern Ireland.
As the doors closed on the last tour of duty for the British army in Belfast, many hope that they will never have to be re-opened.
The army will continue its patrols in other areas of Northern Ireland for the time being.
It is expected that a reduction in army numbers in Northern Ireland will follow quickly, although the army say no decision has yet been taken.
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"Whatever has happened the past 25 or so years" is probably the most succinct description of the troubles I've ever heard.
1998. The last daylight foot patrol in West Belfast. Woodbourne RUC station.
Giod riddance to the scum
@@OhEidirsceoil 14 -0 cxxt
@@ChrisSmith-vw1zf sick bastard.
The people of the bogside according to you loyalist, unionist, brits and brit supporters ARE your own fellow British citizens. So HOW does their MURDER by the paras count as a score of 14?
If the Paras had murdered 14 people in high Wycombe or Exeter ot Torquay or Dundee, would ya still count that as a score of 14?
staffordshire regiment
good lads... the oat cake brigade...
Did you ever do bandit country. Crossmaglen & the Mill at Besbrook. Forkhill Newry etc. Shithole. Rained everyday I fucking hated it. Mortar & sniper grand central back in the day.
@@2sqnbandit379 Glad you enjoyed your'e stay. lol
@@Brandywellbhoy 🤣🤣 yeah it was lovely
Christ that second woman. Many Irish men were in the forces patrolling the streets for terrorists.
Them Irish men that you talk of are on own soil
@@keithkeegan9776 oh you mean Northern Ireland? Because that's British soil
@Wallace20 20 will never happen
@Wallace20 20NI will come out better than any of the UK with brexit, we will have no tarrifs on fish brought ashore in NI for example. Noone will want to be part of fucking southern Ireland let alone the EU
@@silvertain1978
Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom not Britain.
Now there are foreigners with knives in their hands.
the cheek of that second women speaking her truth in her own country
Who claimed that it was cheeky?
@@MrDanielvass YOU
@@paulsaul7674 okay
Now you have foreigners with knives in their hands.
Woodbourne.
Yep ,my local
The Boomtown Rats were fucking awesome...
yes, if they didnt play a note...
Somehow patrolling with those SA 80's doesnt seem as intimidating as with the SLR.
The troubles Will be back
Don’t let the door hit yous on the way out lads🤣
Good night God bless,and sort your own shit out next time..
Northern Ireland is British...... god save the queen....
Baneríon go brách ☘💂♂️👍
Paul Dunne Why do I keep seeing you on these 😂.
God save what Queen? the same Queen that takes all your hard earned taxes and tells you how to live? Your an idiot and a moron rolled into one. We are the ones that can create change within our democracy, peace is within our grasp, All we need to do is work together and forget our differences then we can move forward. fuck Britain fuck everyone else and concentrate on us, we are shit on because of our situation, higher cost of living, lower wages and a bunch of fucking idiots governing this place, ffs we are not even a country we are a state, we need to take a good hard look at this place and unite because collectivly we can all make a change not just for us but for our children.
Rory Larkin Full of contradictions you are
Mr ward I would love to know where you see any contradictions in my comment, if you do I will fix them, we all live and learn nobodys perfect.
fucking love it
Nice looking girl at the beginning
Indeed
that lenadoon
Looks like it. Patrolled there myself with the Paras. An unkempt group. Hopefully, Ireland will decide its own destiny through peace now.
Smells like it
It’s Lebanon 🇱🇧
@@keithmitchell6548 it was trying to and your regiment opened fire on a peaceful protest but hats off to the SAB for blowingfuck out of that regiment. military tactics at there best and when back up arrived there was another little surprise waiting for them exactly were they dug in🇮🇪💚🇮🇪
@@barrymcguire5048 yeah, whatever.
Secound woman knows🇮🇪🇮🇪😂
That’s my mum, god rest her soul only found this video
@@carlladurner amazing rip to her💚
All ended up on heavy medication
Maybe, or they just resumed life as normal. Went to college with a guy who toured NI, he told me that people used to throw shit on him lol
@@turnip5359 what a shitty thing to do.
@@turnip5359 Should of stayed at home then instead of Ireland .🤣
@@turnip5359 nappies full of shit. Engine blocks and washing machines from the divis you name it, spay in your face, BUT didn’t like butt rash off SLR. lololol. 😂
Absolute bollox, know plenty of Ex army who toured NE and there all fine and always have been, Afghanistan was the one that took it toll most.
Job done, PIRA defeated, nice one boys.
You really think the PIRA were defeated? They’re sitting in Government
@@user-go3jv8rw7i Sinn Fein is in a shared government with the DUP exclusively as a democratic political party, not as a revolutionary paramilitary force based upon military power. That's a long way from what the Provisionals were fighting for in the long war.
@@Horizon344 Aye, but do you not still think there’s an IRA element in SF?
@@user-go3jv8rw7i There's a very large ex-PIRA element in there, & a small current element in there too in the form of its "Army Council", but it's ended its use of revolutionary political violence & is pursuing its courses using democratic politics. What's in government is Sinn Fein, not the PIRA.
@@Horizon344 oh aye
I have really really strong flatulence today.
We'll be back
Because of brexit?
@Green Pillow We'll be ready and waiting.
Nope
No yee wont.Yee were supposed to be here at the start for 2 weeks and yee had too stay for decades.British Government wont ever want this ever again.Learn yer lesson once and for all,yee were never wanted here ever.
@@celtichound9889 prick
So whose idea was it to send troops to do police work. ????
God's
the police made a huge mess, that's why the military was sent in
Slán abhaile.
What's does that mean?
@@the_red_barron1002 It means 'Safe Home' to the British soldiers as they go back to where they belong in Britain, because they certainly don't belong in any of Ireland's 32 counties. Tiocfaidh ár lá.
@@pauldunneska so it means safe trip home?
@@the_red_barron1002 Exactly!
@a l95 Confined to barracks. But you are right the occupied stolen six counties of Ireland 🇮🇪 is still under British Rule. But that will change by peaceful and democratic means with a border referendum voting the British occupation out in around 2028.