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You're listening to the BBC World Service and witness history with me Matt Murphy.

From the late 1960s to the 1990s a bloody sectarian conflict called the

Troubles divided Northern Ireland. The Protestant majority, called Unionists, wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom,

while a large Catholic minority dreamed of becoming part of a United Ireland.

Today we're examining the failure of the first attempt to resolve

that conflict. For decades the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland was locked out

of power by the Protestant Ulster Unionist party or UUP.

Discriminated against in areas like housing and employment.

A Catholic civil rights movement inspired by Americans like Martin Luther King emerged

in the 1960s.

You can help to relieve the misery and to relieve the injustices suffered by

thousands of people not in South Africa but within one hour from this city.

That's Austin Curry, then a young Catholic civil rights leader.

Meanwhile, paramilitary groups like the Catholic Provisional Irish Republican Army or IRA

launched a campaign of violence which saw 500 people killed in 1972 alone. In January 1972, when 14 people were killed by the British Army during a civil rights

march in Derry, the British government realized the violence was

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