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The Documentary: Northern Ireland 1969: The violence spreads

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Belfast, Falls Road area, 1969

30/10/2019 GMT

The violence spreads

Northern Ireland 1969

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Northern Ireland 1969, The violence spreads

Ruth Sanderson looks back at the Scarman testimonies and the violence in Belfast in 1969

Ruth Sanderson looks back at the Scarman testimonies and the legacy of the violence in Belfast in 1969.

Ruth Sanderson grew up in Northern Ireland yet never really understood how the Troubles started. In the second programme, looking back at Scarman testimonies and talking to her parents who were caught up in events, Ruth is trying to work out how Northern Ireland spiralled out of control. Fifty years on and with her first baby on the way, Ruth wants to know if the legacy of the Troubles will ever be lifted in a Northern Ireland which is still divided today.

(Photo: A British Army soldier on lookout in the Falls Road area of Belfast,15/08/1969. Credit: Press Association)

The Documentary: Northern Ireland 1969

How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began.

The Northern Irish Troubles began when civil disturbances tipped into widespread violence across a single week in August 1969. The bitter conflict between those who wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom and those who wanted a united Ireland would go on for more than three decades and claim thousands of lives.

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