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The Falls Curfew, also called the Battle of the Falls (or Lower Falls), was a British Army operation during 3–5 July 1970 in the Falls district of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The operation began as a search for weapons in the staunchly Irish nationalist district. As the search ended, local youths attacked the British soldiers with stones and petrol bombs and the soldiers responded with CS gas. This quickly developed into gun battles between British soldiers and the Irish Republican Army (IRA). After four hours of continuous clashes, the British commander sealed off the area, which comprised 3,000 homes, and imposed a curfew which would last for 36 hours. Thousands of British troops moved into the curfew zone and carried out house-to-house searches for weapons, while coming under intermitten

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  • Falls Curfew (de)
  • Falls Curfew (en)
  • Схватка за Фоллз (ru)
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  • Die Falls Curfew (dt.: Ausgangssperre der Falls), auch Lower Falls Curfew oder Rape of the Lower Falls (dt.: Vergewaltigung der Lower Falls) war eine dreitägige Ausgangssperre, die die britische Armee im Juli 1970 im Gebiet der Falls Road im Westen der nordirischen Hauptstadt Belfast während des Nordirlandkonflikts verhängte. Am 3. Juli 1970 durchsuchten britische Soldaten mehrere Wohnungen nach Waffen. Die Operation weitete sich zu Unruhen aus, bei denen fünf Zivilisten starben und 300 mutmaßliche irische Republikaner verhaftet wurden. Dabei wurden größere Mengen Tränengas eingesetzt. (de)
  • The Falls Curfew, also called the Battle of the Falls (or Lower Falls), was a British Army operation during 3–5 July 1970 in the Falls district of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The operation began as a search for weapons in the staunchly Irish nationalist district. As the search ended, local youths attacked the British soldiers with stones and petrol bombs and the soldiers responded with CS gas. This quickly developed into gun battles between British soldiers and the Irish Republican Army (IRA). After four hours of continuous clashes, the British commander sealed off the area, which comprised 3,000 homes, and imposed a curfew which would last for 36 hours. Thousands of British troops moved into the curfew zone and carried out house-to-house searches for weapons, while coming under intermitten (en)
  • Схватка за Фоллз (англ. Battle of the Falls), известная в историографии Великобритании как Комендантский час в Фоллз (англ. Falls Curfew) и в историографии Ирландии как Погромы в Лоуэр-Фоллз (англ. Rape of the Lower Falls) — операция британских войск, продолжавшаяся с 3 по 5 июля 1970 года в округе Фоллз Белфаста (Северная Ирландия). (ru)
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  • Falls Curfew (en)
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