Le Royaume-Uni à l’épreuve de la crise 1970-1979
The Northern Ireland conflict : the Maze prison
As you know, history shows no shortage of horrifying events.
This (sometimes harrowing) video shows one aspect of the Northern Ireland
conflict. It is a history of the Maze prison. The Maze prison was built to
replace a « Prisoner of War » style camp at the point when the
British government decided it would be better tactics to treat paramilitary
prisoners (Republican and loyalist) as criminals, rather than as political
prisoners. From 1972 to 1976 such prisoners were « special category »
- fundamentally treated as political prisoners. In 1976, this changed. The
documentary includes interviews with both loyalist and republican
paramilitaries, and with prison officers. Some of these people were later involved
in the « peace process » which led to the present situation where
there is almost no military conflict in the province. The first half of the
documentary, up to just before the hunger strike, deals with the 1970s.
The video is here
If, like me, you are snowed under with work, use an online
tool like clipconverter to make the videos into MP3 files you can listen to
while weeding the allotment.
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