UK - Apprentice Boys Parade goes ahead

(10 Aug 1996) T/I: 10:10:59


An expected 10,000 Protestant Loyalists have begun their contentious parade through Londonderry (Derry), Northern Ireland's second city, on Saturday (10/8). The Apprentice Boys, a Protestant fraternal order, have been banned from walking along a stretch of the old city walls which overlooks the Catholic area, the Bogside. Barricades of barbed wire were erected and armed troops drafted into the city to help the police keep the peace. The parade is a commemoration of a victory over the Catholic King of England, James II in the seventeenth century.
Bonfires that included burning Irish flags were lit in Protestant
neighbourhoods on the eve of the parade on Friday (9/8) in protest against the re-routing of part of the parade. A Nationalist march to mark the 25th anniversary of the British policy of internment without trial passed peacefully through the city on Friday, after it was decided by the Catholic residents of the Bogside to bypass the Fountain, a Protestant area. It was feared confrontation would be unavoidable if the marchers crossed into Protestant areas. The 3,000 strong crowd heeded the Sinn Fein deputy leader, Martin McGuiness, who pleaded for "calm and dignity."

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LONDONDERRY (DERRY), NORTHERN IRELAND, UK 9-10/8:

9/8:
WS of building with sign painted on it saying "you are now entering free derry";
Catholic demonstrators marching in street;
Sinn Fein deputy leader, Martin McGuinness, engsot saying "we are
upholding the rights of the apprentice boys to march in their city but we are demanding they accept that small isolated nationalist communities throughout the north of ireland have rights also, and they must acknowledge and recognise that it isn't too much for those communities to ask that they reroute their parades at the very short distance of yards required to avert trouble in those areas";
GVs of demonstrators marching through city streets;
Royal Ulster Constabulary (ruc) police van in street and pan to
demonstrators;
WS of marchers in main square;
Night shots of demonstration, zoom in from barbed wire;
WS of Protestant bonfires;
Police watching;
WS of bonfire and people looking on;
Mini cannon being fired signalling start of protestant march;

10/8:
Apprentice boys walking into their offices;
Mayor of Derry, Richard Dallas, engsot saying "we must endeavour to ensure that today's march passes off in a a peaceful and dignified manner";
CU of banner and PAN down to apprentice boys getting ready to start of march with band playing;
Brass band playing and marchers walking past;
WS of barbed wire over banned section of city walls;
Two apprentice boys let through wall to raise the flag;
CU of orange order and british flag;
Apprentice boys erecting own flag;
WS of city walls with two flags raised;

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