Operation Demetrius

When

9 Aug 1971 – 10 Aug 1971

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

54.61° N, 6.69° W

Description

1971 military operation

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1971 mass arrest and internment by the British Army in Northern Ireland

Operation Demetrius was a British Army operation in Northern Ireland on 9–10 August 1971, during the Troubles. It involved the mass arrest and internment of people until December 1975, a period called the internment. People arrested included those suspected of being involved with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), which was waging an armed campaign for a united Ireland against the British state.

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