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==="The Troubles"===
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[[File:RUC PSNI Dungiven.JPG|thumb|right|Picture showing the fortifications of the RUC station in [[Dungiven]].]]
The [[civil rights]] protests during the 1960s, and the reaction to them, marked the beginning of the conflict that became known as "[[the Troubles]]". The RUC found itself confronting marchers protesting against [[gerrymander]]ing of local electoral wards and discrimination in local housing allocation. Many of these [[Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association]] protests were banned or truncated by the [[Parliament of Northern Ireland|government of Northern Ireland]]. The [[Ulster Special Constabulary]] were controversial, with the unit seen by some nationalists as more anti-Catholic and anti-nationalist than the RUC, which, unlike the B Specials, did attract some Catholic recruits. The severe pressure on the RUC and the perceived partiality of the B-Specials led, during the [[Northern Ireland riots of August 1969]], to the [[British Army]] being called in to support the civil administration under [[Operation Banner]]. Catholics largely turned away from the British Army, who they saw as treating Protestants differently, especially after the [[Falls Curfew]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Cochrane | first=Feargal | title=Northern Ireland: The Reluctant Peace | publisher=Yale University Press | year=2013 | pages=57}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last=Smith| first=William| title=The British State and the Northern Ireland Crisis, 1969–73: From Violence to Power-sharing | publisher=US Institute of Peace Press | year=2011 | pages=151}}</ref>