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Brutality In Gerry Conlon's The Troubles

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Between 1968 and 1998, 3,600 people were killed and 50,000 people were injured by car bombs, riots and police brutality due to rising tensions in Northern Ireland (BBC.CO.UK). This marks the causalities in "The Troubles" one of the darkest times in Irish and British history, which started with underlying tensions in the Northern Irish communities. Many government jobs were mainly occupied by Protestant-Unionists citizens such as police officers and gerrymandering was commonplace in political offices before the Troubles. Starting in January 1967, the catholic-nationalist minority had started their long struggle for civil rights in Belfast, Ireland gaining inspiration from other civil right movements such as Martin Luther King's movements in the United States. But the unforeseen violence did not commence until October 5th 1968 when tensions reached a boiling point in violent riots between the two opposing factions and the intervention of cops with fire hoses and batons. This type of violence would eventually become commonplace in Northern Ireland during the Troubles such as Bloody Friday in Belfast, when 19 car bombs went off killing 9 people and injuring 130 people (BBC.CO.UK). These events would shake the European world in only a matter of years.

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