(6 Jul 2000) Voice and effects
VOICED BY: Vera Frankl
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Despite calls by Protestant leaders for calm, there was more violence in the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast after Protestants rioted for a fourth night.
Youths threw gasoline bombs and set off fireworks.
The protests are aimed at forcing authorities to allow a parade by the Orange Order, Northern Ireland's once-dominant Protestant brotherhood.
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British troops were in the firing line in Belfast for the first time in 12 months when youths began throwing rocks, fireworks and petrol bombs in another night of violence in the troubled province.
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Black smoke from burning vehicles stained the evening sky.
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Soldiers aimed weapons at young men tossing gasoline bombs at armoured cars and hijacking vehicles. Thousands of hard-line Protestants blocked more than a dozen roads at evening rush hour.
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Residents trying to get home needed help from security forces to make their way past the protestors.
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The British army has deployed about 100 soldiers into north Belfast to support police units.
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It's the army's first mission there for a year.
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British army headquarters says that security forces have contained 61 riots in a single 24 hour period.
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That's more protests than happened in Northern Ireland in all of 1999.
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The fourth night of protests follows a ban on this coming Sunday's Orange Order parade down Garvaghy Road, a Catholic section of mainly Protestant Portadown.
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