Internment Flashcards
(11 cards)
When was internment introduced
August 1971
What was internment
Imprisonment without trial
What was internments codename
Operation Demetrius
What was internment introduced for
To decrease paramilitary violence
Was internment successful
No it increased paramilitary violence
Why did internment fail (biased, outdated intelligence)
Nationalists felt it was biased against them. Therefore created a worse relationship between the British army, the people who implemented internment and themselves. (First loyalists were only interned in 1973 two years after internment began!!!)
Internment was also outdated intelligence and arrested the wrong people. All 452 men arrested weren’t a leading member of the PIRA
Why did unionists first support internment
- worked in the past (1920s)
- genuinely thought it would stop violence and future violence
- the inturness could be informants meaning more reliable?
Why were nationalists against internment
Biased against them (discrimination)
What did the SDLP do in protest of internment
Stoped payments of rents and rates for withdrawal from local government in protest
What was NICRA’s reaction to internment
Protest marches which resulted in Bloody Sunday
Which PM introduced internment
Brian Faulkner
