‘The blanket protest was born.’ ibid.
‘There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed. ibid. Sands
Their Hunger Their Pain Our Struggle. ibid. wall art protest mural
‘The body fights back sure enough.’ ibid.
President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 which displaces Japanese-Americans from their homes and forces them into internment camps across the West Coast. Wartime Crime s1e4: Zoot Suit Riots, Yesterday 2018
‘I have therefore decided after consultation with Her Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom to exercise where necessary the powers of detention and internment vested in me for the minister of home affairs. The Troubles: A Secret History I, Brian Faulkner, BBC 2019
On the first day of internment 342 people were arrested, all of them regarded as suspected republican terrorists. No loyalists were detained. ibid.
Hundreds of suspects were arrested and effectively interned. The Troubles: A Secret History IV
The truth about China’s secret indoctrination camps. Leaked documents reveal how a superpower is trying to brainwash a million people. We’ve obtained secret government instructions to those who run the camps. And we confront the Chinese state with our evidence. Panorama: How to Brainwash a Million People, BBC 2019
China has built hundreds of them in the last three years … Each of these camps has hundreds of detainees held without charge. Some hold thousands. There’s one for every town. ibid.
‘Never allow escapes. Increase discipline and punishment … Strict secrecy … The work policy of the … centres is strong and highly sensitive’. ibid. government document
‘Oh the 80s hair! [beauty contest] … I was really a greenhorn. I had never been outside of Derry … I wasn’t me … Nobody knew that my brother was murdered … I survived the fucking troubles … Nothing’s going to beat me down …’ Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland I, BBC 2023
From the late 1960s Northern Ireland was torn apart by a violent conflict that would last for near 30 years. It was widely known as The Troubles. ibid. captions
‘We had a civil rights movement … peaceful demonstrations … housing, jobs and better conditions …’ ibid. Wee Bill
‘You knew deep down that something was going to happen.’ ibid. young lady
‘All our life and heritage is at stake … Romanism has controlled in this land for many centuries and Romanism has bread poverty and ignorance and priestcraft and superstition …’ ibid Paisley
August 1969: Battle of the Bogside: ‘All red. Houses blazing … There was whole streets being burned out by Protestant extremists …’ ibid.
‘The price of no solution is total destruction.’ ibid. politician
‘They had an enemy right in front of them in green uniform.’ ibid. witness
‘Your whole day was preoccupied with the riots.’ ibid.
‘They were angry and they were shouting and they were wrecking the place.’ ibid. young lady
‘That’s the only thing we had. Internment … They were not the right people …’ ibid.