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Re: Manchester Arena Terror Attack: 22 Dead : 50+ Injured
We should try and learn from history.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14458270
Quote:
Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, who was a Stormont civil servant at the time, said on previous occasions, internment had succeeded.
"But it soon became clear that far from quelling the uprising, the policy hugely increased recruitment into the IRA," he said.
With 40 years' hindsight, the historical consensus is that internment did the opposite of what it was supposed to do.
Patrick Mercer, a Conservative MP who served in the army in Northern Ireland, said: "It stoked the conflict for at least the next 10 years, if not 20."
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