MONDAY, JULY 1, 2002: Around 9am Provisional (Lord Mayor) Alec Maskey along with a number of other Provisionals laid a wreath to British Crown Forces who died at the Somme in 1916. The wreath laying took place at the Cenotaph in the grounds of Belfast City Hall and was done in the guise of Republicanism.
Work started to replace the spy camera at Estoril Park under the watchful eye of two RUC Land Rovers and two Brit armoured cars as the work was carried out. As yet there has been no attempt to replace the spy camera at Brompton Park.
Tension was high in east Belfast as a mini Twelfth parade by Orangemen passed close to the nationalist Short Strand. Brit/RUC Occupation Forces were heavy on the ground. No reports of trouble.
Alec Maskey of the Provisionals’ political wing, current Lord Mayor of Belfast, laid a wreath at the British army Cenotaph at City Hall in Belfast to commemorate British soldiers who died during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2002: Loyalist paramilitaries under the guise of the Loyalist Commission held talks with Brit occupation forces secretary of state John Reid at the meeting were Johnny Adair and John White. The groups there were UDA/UFF, UVF/RHC, other loyalist groups, unionists and protestant ministers. It should be noticed that Adair and his gang went into the nationalist area of Deerpark and Cliftondene a week earlier and erected loyalist flags and a few days after houses in that same area were attacked by loyalists causing damage to a number of them. Shots were also fired.
There were no reports of trouble on Tuesday at Ardoyne. As has been ongoing Provo police are still doing the role of the RUC at Brompton Park and Ardoyne Road, under the watchful eye of the RUC and Brits in Twaddle Ave on the Crumlin Road.
WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY, JULY, 3/4, 2002: East Belfast was yet again the scene for another loyalist pipe bomb attack on the nationalist Short Strand. Wednesday had just moved into Thursday morning, around 12.10am, when loyalist bombers carried out this latest attack.
Their target was any of the nationalist homes on the other side of the so-called peace-line. The victims would just be in the house where the bomb landed.
In this case the bomb hit the bedroom window of the McGuigan family home at Bryson Court.
After hitting the window the bomb fell into the back yard, going off beside two gas bottles.
If the bomb had set the gas bottles off the McGuigan family may not have been able to tell the tale.
In many, if not all the cases in which nationalists have found themselves the victims of loyalist attack luck has played a big part in keeping people safe.
Martina McGuigan, who escaped injury along with her family in this latest attack said that after ten years of living in the Short Strand area she is now thinking of moving out of the area.
Other areas to have seen trouble, although minor, was Deer Park Road/Cliftondene Park, North Queen Street and Crumlin Road, mostly stone throwing.
On Thursday night around 11.30pm nationalists in Ardoyne once more set about trying to remove the spy camera that had been erected earlier in the day under the watchful eye of the RUC and Brit army. A Brit helicopter also buzzed the area as the work went on. The nationalist peoples attempt to remove this camera at Estoril Park was unsuccessful as the nationalists were overwhelmed by RUC and Brit occupation forces.
The RUC have now placed a round-the-clock watch on the camera at Estoril Park. As yet there has been no attempt to replace the spy camera at Brompton Park.
One Ardoyne man was lifted as the occupation forces moved into the area.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2002: Two nationalist homes in the Leckagh estate, Magherafelt attacked with petrol bombs.
THURSDAY, JULY 4, 2002: Nationalist family home in North Parade, South Belfast, petrol bombed by loyalists. Pipe bomb attack on a house in Bryson Court, Short Strand.
FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2002: Loyalists struck in south Belfast. A nationalist woman of 61 years was the latest victim of loyalists when her home at North Parade was petrol bombed.
The woman was upstairs in her bedroom watching the television when a breeze block was thrown through the living room window, followed by a petrol bomb that hit the window frame and fell into the garden.
For the second time within 72 hours luck played a part in saving lives during a loyalist attack on nationalists.
The question has to be how often will that be the case? Will the next attack see a nationalist family as lucky?
Friday also saw loyalist stone throwers once again attack the nationalist houses at Alliance Ave, again throwing from Alliance Road.
SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2002: A Brit army Land Rover crushed a 21 year old nationalist as he walked with other youths at Duncairn Gardens where the top of the New Lodge Road meeting the Antrim Road. The youth was left fighting for his life. Witnesses claimed the youth was hit by the Land Rover in a deliberate action by the Brits in the Land Rover.
After this deliberate attempted murder nationalist youths confronted occupation forces at the scene and fighting broke out which was heavy for a time.
Tension in the area was high.
At around 4.30am a crowd of loyalists came up from lower Old Park Road and set about attacking the nationalist Old Park, the Bone area. Fighting took place as nationalists took to the streets, pushing the loyalists back down the Old Park.
As Brit/RUC occupation forces flooded into the nationalist Bone area confrontation took place between nationalist youths and the Crown forces with the nationalists now taking on the Crown forces using whatever could be found to do so.
The fighting died down after some time with daylight already broken.
There was minor stone throwing through the day as nationalist children used RUC and Brit armoured cars for target practice.
As Saturday went on the local Provo policemen patrolled the area in three car loads, jumping to their masters (England) voice.
2am - 18-year-old nationalist man beaten unconcious by a loyalist mob in Kilkeel, Co. Down.
Pipe bomb thrown at a home in Newington Avenue.
SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2002: What has now become known as Drumcree Sunday saw a build up of tension in Belfast.
There was trouble once again in a number of areas with interface areas in north and east Belfast suffering bottle, brick and stone attacks.
Nationalist homes in Alliance Ave were once again attacked by loyalists from Alliance Road.
It also became clear that a pregnant woman living in the nationalist Newington Ave had a lucky escape when a pipebomb exploded in her back yard on Saturday night. Sinead O'Neill, a mother of one and who is seven months pregnant said that she and her child were lucky not to have been killed when the bomb exploded outside her kitchen window.
She added the bomber came from the loyalist Tigers Bay.
Loyalist petrol bombers also attacked bungalows in the Short Strand area.
Loyalists attacked the home of a young couple on the Springfield Road in Belfast.
Two carloads of loyalists throw large fireworks into the Yorkgate shopping complex.
A black-taxi driver had a hammer thrown at his vehicle by loyalists at the junction of the Crumlin Road and the Ligoniel Road.
Three men attempt to abduct a woman on the Cliftonville Road.
48 year old man was knocked down in a hit and run in Union Street.
MONDAY, JULY 8, 2002: Although tension was high there were only reports of minor trouble in a number of areas. Provo police were heavy on the ground.
Around 100 loyalists attacked the nationalist Rathenraw Estate in Antrim.
Five shots were fired through the living room of a Catholic home in Coleraine.
TUESDAY, JULY 9, 2002: The RUC claimed to have found a number of crates of bottles, petrol and a bag of nuts and bolts in east Belfast. They claimed to have found the items in the Clandeboye area of Short Strand.
Tuesday night saw yet another attempt to remove the spy camera at Estoril Park. Nationalists in a planned action moved to burn the wiring out of the spy camera. Burning tyres were used, being set around the base of the camera and set alight.
Crowds of people stood round the top of Estoril Park to watch the goings on. A Brit helicopter buzzed the scene as the beam of its search light lit up the area.
As Brit/RUC occupation forces flooded into the area the spy camera was hit by a number of shots fired by a nationalist gunman.
Claims by the RUC that the camera wasn't damaged were seen for the lies they were when repair work had to be carried out the following day. The eye of the camera itself had also to be replaced.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2002: Wednesday morning around 5am. Brit and RUC occupation forces flooded into Ardoyne, putting the area under siege for hours.
Local people were unable to use the shops that had been forces to close by Crown forces nor were they able to go to 10am mass in Holy Cross chapel.
The Crumlin Road was closed to all vehicles apart from those of the RUC and Brit army.
The RUC put out a statement that they were looking for bombs, a claim rubbished by the local people who said the scale of the Crown forces operation clearly showed that this was no more than a dry run for the 12th of July when the Brit army and RUC will force a sectarian Orange march through the nationalist part of the Crumlin Road.
The siege that started at 5am ended well into the afternoon.
The Crown forces also used this time to repair a spy camera that had been damaged the night before.
There was trouble in a number of interface areas in north and east Belfast. Nationalist houses at Alliance Ave were attacked. Although a number of the houses were hit by stones being thrown from Alliance Road no damage was caused. Loyalists have been constantly carrying out attacks on nationalist homes in this area.
In east Belfast at Short Strand 12-year-old Liam Lawlor was treated in hospital for shock and burns after a firework that was thrown over the so-called peace line from the loyalist Cluan Place went off in his face.
Occupied Six County Provisional Policemen, in their role as Stormont fusiliers moved to stop nationalist resistance in north Belfast.
At around 11.15pm an act of resistance to Brit occupation took place in the Bone area of the Old Park Road, north Belfast.
A group of nationalist street fighters using petrol bombs carried out an act of resistance against Crown forces.
Two Brit army APCs were attacked as they drove along Old Park Road. Both vehicles were hit and left the scene at speed.
While the nationalist street fighters made ready for the Brits to return, Provisional paramilitary Stormont police came on the scene. This group of post ceasefire Provos and misfits set about doing Englands bidding.
Not only did these Provisional misfits manhandle the nationalist street fighters but they put in place a guard on the Old Park Road to make sure there would be no repeat of the resistance shown earlier and these anti-Republicans also ensured free passage to occupation force vehicles for the rest of the night.
A heated exchange took place between the nationalist street fighters and the Stormont fusiliers before the nationalist fighters withdrew into side streets only to return when the Stormont fusiliers let down their guards and carried out another act of resistance, once again attacking two APCs.
A nationalist family forced to flee their home in the Stiles estate, Antrim Town after a loyalist attack on their home.
THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2002: Loyalists made ready their bonfires for the night to come as tension was high around Belfast.
Provisional policemen were still heavy on the ground as Provisional Stormont ministers gave assurances to Brit occupation forces that there would be no resistance to the Crown forces, forcing a sectarian Orange march through Ardoyne at the Crumlin Road.
Around 9pm a nationalist who took part in an act of resistance on the Old Park Road on Wednesday night was lifted from his home in the Bone area by Provo policemen.
A number of people were witness to the arrest. The nationalist was released after a time.
Once again the Provisionals were saw for what they are. They are Six County State policemen. The only thing missing is the RUC uniform.
A Republican Active Service Unit is believed to have hi-jacked a van in west Belfast before putting a bomb on board. The van was then driven to Belfast city centre by a volunteers. It is believed the van bomb was abandoned in Little Donegall Street because of occupation force activity in the area.
The intended target is not yet known. A phone warning was given.
For the second time in a matter of months Republicans have carried out a van bomb attack in Belfast; actions that will cause dismay to the Brit establishment and those in the unionist seat of power at Stormont.
On July 11 the night sky turned red and smoke filled the air as loyalist bonfires were lit.
Tension was high. Within the nationalist areas Provisional policemen upheld the British mis-rule, doing Englands dirty work for her.
Nationalist youths were not allowed to stand in groups. Those who dared to throw at passing armoured cars found themselves being manhandled by Provisional policemen who patrolled on foot and in cars.
As this was going on loyalists were out looking for nationalist victims.
In the early hours of 1am on Thursday morning a nationalist man, 28-year-old Michael Rafferty from west Belfast was able to fight off loyalists who tried to abduct him close to the loyalist Village area.
Mr Rafferty was badly beaten, suffering leg, face and head wounds. The fact that he held on to railings saved his life. "The more they tried to force me to let go of the railing the more I held on for my life. I knew very well if they got me to their car I was a dead man," he said.
One of the loyalists said: "Get the gun and we'll do him here". Only for a group of people coming on the scene there is very little doubt that Mr Rafferty would have been murdered.
Later on in the night as nationalist youths were being victimised by Provo police a young nationalist fell victim to loyalists. Sixteen-year-old John Campbell was walking in Glantane Drive near the Antrim Road in north Belfast when a white Rover car pulled up.
It is believed that those in the car got out, went over to the youth and said something. They then hit him before stabbing him. The teenager is now in a critical condition in the RVH.
At a number of bonfires in north and west Belfast both the UVF and UDA/UFF staged shows of strength. In north Belfast in the Westland Road either UDA/UFF men and women fired shots into the air from an assortment of weapons from machine guns to handguns. In the Westland where this show of strength was staged is very close to nationalist areas in the Cavehill Road and also in the Westland Road itself. This area was picked, no doubt, to strike fear into the nationalists living in these areas.
The other shows of strength were staged in the Shankill Road. In C Coy area, lower Shankill Johnny Adair looked on as eight UDA/UFF men and women first read out a statement threatening the whole nationalist community to cheers from loyalist onlookers. The loyalists then fired into the air, again from an assortment of weapons.
Almost to the very minute the UDA/UFF were able to put on both shows of strength, putting on show 16 assorted weapons.
The UVF also put on a show of strength in the upper Shankill Road. Around five to six people took part, again firing into the air.
Stone throwing took place at the back of the nationalist houses in Alliance Ave. No damage was caused as loyalists stoned the nationalist houses from the Alliance Road.
11pm - 16 year old nationalist teenager was stabbed in the neck and back by loyalists as he walked along Glentane Drive in the Skegoniel area of North Belfast.
1am - loyalists attempt to abduct a nationalist man at Broadway roundabout, West Belfast.
FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2002: An early morning bomb scare on the Friday closed the M2 motorway for a time. The scare later turned out to be a hoax.
A sectarian loyalist march that was not welcome at the Ardoyne shops and the nationalist Crumlin Road passed through that area on Friday morning.
A crowd of nationalists who turned out to protest against the march being forced through their area were faced with hundred of Brit/RUC occupation forces backed up by dogs and Land Rovers as well as armoured cars and Saxen APCs.
The protesters were already restrained by leading west and north Belfast Provisionals. Scenes of Brit Stormont MLA Gerry Kelly running up and down RUC lines talking to the RUC were reminiscent of the scenes of David Trimble running up and down RUC lines on the hill at Drumcree a few years ago.
True Republicans were sickened to see Kelly with his lapdogs holding onto the tails of his coat following along as he went on his Yes Sir! No Sir! Trail.
As the loyalists passed by the Ardoyne shops the nationalist protesters stood behind the RUC Land Rovers that kept them forced into the footpath at the front of the Ardoyne shops.
As the Provisionals kept a watchful eye the protesters were able to make a lot of noise. The RUC no doubt had assurances given that there would be no more than a noisy protest.
The Orange march forced along the nationalist part of the Springfield Road saw nationalists once again face hundreds of Crown occupation forces who were there to ensure the loyalist march was forced through the nationalist area. Again the nationalist protesters were noisy as the sectarian march passed by.
Tension was high in north and west Belfast as nationalists waited for the loyalists to return later in the day.
In north Belfast Brit/RUC occupation forces were already flooded into the Ardoyne. Also from before 6pm the Provisionals had taken up their role as policemen around the Ardoyne shops.
People witnessed the Provo policemen check behind the Ardoyne shops, making sure that nationalist youths were not making ready for defence against Brit occupation forces and loyalism.
As more nationalists went to the Ardoyne shops to take part in protests against the Orange march around seven to eight hundred or more people were now in front of the Ardoyne shops.
The RUC had already blocked the nationalists into the footpath at the Ardoyne shops and also across the road. Provisional policemen moved through the crowds watching for anyone who may have had bottles or anything else to hand.
Again Kelly and his lap dogs ran up and down RUC lines talking to the RUC as to plans of how the Provisionals would control the nationalists. Leading Provisionals from north and west Belfast were in force on the ground. Many of the Provisionals stood with their backs towards the RUC as they kept an eye on the nationalists.
Top Provos such as Bobby Storey, Martin Meehan and Gerry Kelly and many others played their policing role well. So much so the RUC would be proud of them.
It was almost 8pm when the loyalist march came up the Shankill and on to Woodvale Road to the Crumlin Road.
Within minutes insults began to fly as loyalists waved sectarian flags and shouted 'U-U-UFF' as nationalists moved forward towards RUC lines up at the far end of the shops the RUC used their batons. To witness the scenes that followed was sickening - even for those members of RSF who were on the ground and who have stood against the sell-out process at every stage.
The Provisional policemen moved in in force. Youth men who had been the targets for the RUC batons were now the targets for Provo police who forcefully got hold of the men, forcing them back. One teenager had a bottle taken from him and was thrown to the ground. Others were man-handled in other ways.
As fighting went on, in what was only minutes a line of RUC men in riot gear moved along the line of RUC Land Rover.
This is the face of the Provo police in action. The Provisionals fill the Brit jackboot well and put down any resistance to Brit rule because they know very well that resistance from nationalists undermines the whole sell-out process.
Most of the crowd had already left, sickened by what they had witnessed when Gerry Kelly made a speech in which he said to the now small crowd: 'the RUC want to leave the area. We will give them a hand to leave. There will be no rioting'.
If anyone disbelieves this account, the scenes of the Provo police in action carried on TV news reports seen by, no doubt, thousands of people will confirm it. Many people have remarked on the news report which shows top Provo Bobby Storey manhandle a nationalist youth as he shouts into his face.
The RUC were full of praise for the Provisionals and the good job they had done. The Provo bedfellows in the RUC couldn't praise them enough.
On the Springfield Road trouble broke out and was heavy for a time with more than a hundred petrol bombs thrown. This took place after nationalists were forced back by the RUC to let an Orange march be forced through a nationalist area. On its return from the field a number of witnesses stated that the trouble was hit on the head when the Provisionals took control. One man said he believed the Provos were in control from the start to finish.
"There was a lot of tension in the air and the Provos knew to that the way to lay that to rest was to give the kids a wee riot. But hen they wanted it to stop it stopped and that was done more or less by one of those boys who runs the show here waving his arms," he said.
He added: "Those kids were used big time. If one of them had been killed by one of those plastic bullets I've no doubt it would have been nothing more than PR for those boys".
Cameraman beaten by a group of loyalists on the Limestone Road.
Loyalists attack residents, cars and homes in Carrick Hill.
Bottles and stones thrown at Lancaster Street.
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2002: Two Catholic churches attacked in Portglenone and Harryville, Co. Antrim. Controled explosion carried out on a device outside a nationalist owned business in Ahoghill, Co. Antrim.
MONDAY, JULY 15, 2002: Golf balls and stones hurled at homes on Alliance Avenue.
Bolts thrown at houses on Ardoyne Road.
TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2002: Man attacked and beaten outside Henry Joy's bar by a gang of loyalists. The victim received 45 staples to head injuries and was also treated for a serious knife wound.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2002: Sustained petrol bomb and paint bomb attacks on houses in Alliance Avenue.
50 loyalists attack homes in Ligoniel with petrol bombs and stones and shots were also fired. One home was gutted by fire and nine other homes were damaged.
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2002: 4:30pm - Stones and slates thrown over the peaceline at nationalist homes from the loyalist Glenbryn area. Four people were brought to hospital with head injuries.
5pm - A nationalist man and woman were injured when missiles were hurled in Alliance Avenue from loyalist Glenbryn.
10:30pm - More than a dozen petrol bombs thrown at nationalist homes in North Belfast. Three homes in the Deerpark area of North Belfast were attacked by Loyalists. (Windows broken).
10:45pm - North Antrim Provisional councillor Philip McGuigan received a bomb in the post from Loyalists which was picked up by his three-year-old son.
11pm - Nationalist homes in Alliance Avenue targetted by loyalists throwing petrol bombs from the loyalist Glenbryn area.
11pm - Nationalist houses in Ligoniel attacked by around 60 loyalists with machetes and sticks - Loyalists broke into houses and set them on fire with petrol bombs (10 houses damaged). Shots were also fired by loyalists during the attack. Paramedics were also injured during the attack.
11pm - Upper Crumlin Road - A nationalist mother and her three children were trapped in their burning car which was set alight by a loyalist mob of about 60 men.
1am - Nationalist man was attacked and beaten by a four strong loyalist gang armed with bats and a knife. He was dragged into a a deserted cul-de-sac in the loyalist end of the Oldpark Road after he left a pub close to the interface area.
2am - Nationalist father of three had to undergo emergency surgery after becoming a victim of a sectarian knife attack as he walked with a friend in Rosapenna Street, North Belfast.
FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2002: 5am - Loyalists petrol bomb a parochial house in Newcastle, County Down.
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2002: 2am - A gang of loyalists wrecked cars and houses with bricks and petrol bombs in Skegoneil Avenue, North Belfast.
5am - Loyalist gang returned to Skegoniel Avenue to carry out further attacks. Nine cars damaged, two completely burnt out in Skegoniel Avenue and one in nearby Glandore Avenue. Nationalist homes were attacked in Rosapenna Street in the Oldpark area of North Belfast. Bricks, paint bombs and bottles thrown at nationalist homes in Alliance Avenue.
SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2002: 10am - Magherafelt - An explosive device left in the garden of a nationalist home.
10pm Loyalists fired shots at two men on Salisbury Avenue
10.45pm Two loyalists on a motorcycle tried to kill a man on the Oldpark Road but their gun jammed
11.20pm Shots were fired at people in Ligoniel
11.30pm A 29 year old man was shot in Rosapenna Court
Midnight Gerard Lawlor was shot dead by loyalists as he walked home along the Antrim Road.
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2002: Nationalists living in a number of interface areas once more suffer loyalists attacks. Nationalists in north and east Belfast again the targets for loyalist sectarianism.
Saturday night loyalists go on the rampage in the loyalist Sandy Row area in South Belfast, attacking shops and hijacking a number of vehicles, the RUC hold the line along with the Brit Army so stop the trouble spilling out onto Belfast's Golden Mile; and causing damage to the Belfast night life.
Also on Saturday night Sunday morning a Catholic teenager from North Belfast was beaten at Kelly's nightclub, loyalists were witnessed picking on the youth Christopher Whitson.
The loyalists who were shouting anti-catholic slogans were put out of the club by staff, but stayed in the car-park waiting for their victim, when the young man came out of the club he was set upon and badly beaten; so much so the young man lies in the Royal Victoria Hospital in a state of coma, only staying alive it is believed at this stage by life support.
It has also become clear that he was home on summer leave from Dundee University.
SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2002: Sunday saw no let-up in the constant loyalist attacks on nationalists living in interface areas at Alliance Avenue what has been the scene for a number of weeks today saw so change, as countless times through the day loyalist carry out their attacks; damage was done to a number of homes as attacks took place from the Alliance Road. There was also attacks carried out by loyalists in East Belfast, this time there was no reports of injuries.
Sunday night was yet witness to more trouble in loyalist Sandy Row, as once again loyalists went on the rampage, breaking into shops and hijacked a number of vehicles the RUC/Brit Occupation Forces moved in when the loyalists were once again in danger of spilling out onto the Golden Mile, threatening Belfast night life.
MONDAY, JULY 29, 2002: Monday went on as before for those nationalists living on the front line, as houses came under brick stone and bottle attack.
Once again the people of Alliance Avenue in North Belfast took the brunt of the ongoing loyalist attack. Although there was reports of sectarian loyalist attacks in a number of other areas.
That was the scene set for another day for nationalists on the interface areas.
TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2002: "Republican Action" causes chaos in Belfast city centre on Tuesday Morning".
In a prepared statement handed to SAOIRSE in Belfast, Republican activists claimed responsibility for carrying out an operation that brought Belfast city centre to a standstill.
The statement said: On Tuesday morning 30 July 2002 Irish Republican Volunteers carried out two military operations in Belfast. At around 9am a Volunteer placed a device on a bus on the Falls Road and ordered the driver to take the bus to Belfast City Hall. The device, a hoax, brought the city centre to a standstill, and caused shops and offices to be evacuated.
The second of the two operations took place around 9.30am when a Volunteer placed a device on a bus on the Springfield Road and ordered the driver to take the bus to Belfast city centre.
The driver of the bus abandoned it at Grosvenor Road close to the West Link as a result causing total chaos to the early morning traffic on the M1 and M2. All Volunteers returned safely to base". The statement went on :"The aim of today's operations was to let it be known that there is no normal situation in the Occupied Six Counties. The occupation of the Six Counties is a forced occupation. Spin-doctoring by an alien British government and ex-Republicans, that all is rosey in the garden are lies.
Day and night nationalist men, women and children are being targeted by the combine forces of the Brits and sectarian loyalism.
There is a clear campaign of ethnic cleansing being carried out against the nationalist community in vulnerable areas.
Collusion between Brit occupation forces and their loyalist puppets is rife. We will not allow the truth to be dressed up or covered up with a lie.
The struggle to remove the cause of all this will go on. There will not, there cannot be peace in Ireland until the forced British occupation is removed once and for all". Statement ends.
Tuesday was again to witness attacks by loyalists on nationalist areas in North Belfast. Alliance Avenue was once more a target for loyalists, although minor to that seen in recent days, in East Belfast Short Strand was the target as loyalist carried on the attacks there.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2002: There was tension in the air in Ardoyne as Loyalists stone throwers kicked off their attack again. Again it started with stones, bottles and bricks through the day constant throwing of fireworks took place, many of these doctored to do as much damage as possible; a number of these fell into a number of back yards or kit windows falling to the ground.
By darkness a countless number of these had gone off, there was no reports of injuries. Trouble also took place in Short Strand as stones and other weapons were thrown over the so-called peace line.
As darkness fell people stood around in groups or at their front doors. No doubt with the thought of what next?
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