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The rioting took place in Derry, Northern Ireland, 12 August-14 August 1969, after the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) attempted to disperse nationalists who were protesting a loyalist Apprentice Boys of Derry parade along the city walls, past the nationalist Bogside area of the city.
The riot, which sparked widespread violence elsewhere in Northern Ireland, is commonly seen as one of the first major confontations in the conflict known as The Troubles.
Taken together with events in Derry, this period of rioting is widely seen as the point in which The Troubles escalated from a sitauation of civil unrest to one of a three way armed conflict between nationalists, state forces and unionists.
The riots broke out in response to the Battle of the Bogside in Derry, a three day confrontation between the Catholic nationalist residents of the Bogside and the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Riots were launched elsewhere in Northern Ireland in support of the Bogsiders, in turn provoking reprisals from the RUC and loyalists.
Unlike Derry, where nationalists were a majority and the fighting was largely between them and the RUC, Catholic nationalists in Belfast were a minority and the rioting when it broke out, rapidly became a sectarian confrontation between them and the majority Protestant population.
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