Police Break Up Sectarian Clashes
Masked Roman Catholic militants attacked police and marchers in Belfast during parades by the Protestant Orange Order on the “Twelfth” holiday, traditionally the most divisive day in Northern Ireland.
Catholics threw bottles, rocks and bricks over a police cordon and onto North Belfast’s Crumlin Road, where several hundred Orangemen were returning from the provincial capital’s major Orange rally involving more than 10,000 Protestants.
Protestants threw back some of the projectiles as police struggled to keep the two camps apart.
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