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Civil Rights Protest In The 1960's
• Thirtieth (30th) of January 1972, a civil rights demonstration was planned to take place.
• The demonstration was banned. British authorities wanted to prevent the protesters from getting within the city wall, where it was feared for looting and destruction.
• The military wore fully military equipment, as wasn’t normal gear as the forces of law and order wore to a civil rights demonstration. Some of them had rifles with rubber bullets and some of them had right patrons.
• It’s result in a provocation for the demonstrators because it was not what they had expected and it was not disclosed in the public.
• It is clear, and when one man shoots, then it’s all escalate.

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