Six policemen injured in riots in Belfast

People throwing firecrackers at police and attacked police cars. To disperse the crowd police had to use plastic bullets and water cannons. Police detained seven troublemakers. More serious disturbances took place in Belfast on the night of June 21, when gunfire wounded two people. Pogroms in the streets of Belfast, then made ​​a 500 men in masks. They threw stones at houses and firebombs. Two men suffered gunshot wounds. The fire was from both loyalists, and by the Republicans (Catholics seeking accession to the North of Ireland Republic of Ireland). The authorities accused the organization of violence, loyalist paramilitaries, "Ulster Volunteer Force» (Ulster Volunteer Force, UVF), in 2009, declared their complete disarmament. The situation in Northern Ireland each year is heating up in front of the parade on July 12, which involves thousands of members of the Protestant Orange Order (Orange Order), marking the anniversary of the victory of the Protestant army of King William III of Orange over the forces of the deposed Catholic monarch named James II in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne. Protestants tend to go on and Catholic areas, which often leads to violence. Orange Order was founded in 1795 and employs more than 75,000 members in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In 1921, formerly under British rule, Ireland was divided into two parts. The smaller, northern (Ulster), with a majority of the Church of the descendants of immigrants from England and Scotland was left for the United Kingdom, and the southern Catholic majority began with the British dominions, who later gained independence. Acted on behalf of the Catholic minority Irish Republican Army (IRA) performed for the release of Ulster from British rule and its connection to Ireland. IRA and other republican organizations, in particular, the Irish National Liberation Army (Irish National Liberational Army, INLA) in 1970-1990s carried out many terrorist attacks in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They were opposed by the British Government and Protestant paramilitary groups, known as loyalists, and committed numerous acts of terrorism. After signing in Belfast in April 1998, the so-called Good Friday Agreement in Ulster level of violence has decreased considerably, while the main warring factions, including "The Provisional IRA» (Provisional IRA), declared a ceasefire. However, the most radical proponents of independence for the province refused to recognize peace agreements. In recent years, tensions in the province once again growing. In March 2009, members of the 'True IRA' attack on British army base in Northern Ireland Massereene County Antrim, which for the first time in years killed two British soldiers. Today barricade between Catholic and Protestant areas, there are still more than 30 parts of Belfast. After the signing of the Good Friday Agreement the number only increased. UVF was formed in 1966. The aim was to destroy the republican group of paramilitary organizations. During the conflict in Ulster (1968 – 1998 gg.) UVF militants killed about 500 people, the vast majority – of Catholics. The most bloody actions UVF have burst into the bar Makgurka (McGurk's Bar) in December 1971 and the bombings in Dublin and the Republic of Ireland Monahane in May 1974 that killed 33 people.