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| place = North Belfast, West Belfast | coordinates = | causes = | goals = | methods = | status = | result = * 92 PSNI officers injured * Damage to cars and property * High tensions in the area * Strong criticism of the Parades Commission | side1 = | side2 = | side3 = | leadfigures1 = 92 PSNI officers injured | leadfigures2 = 25+ arrests | leadfigures3 = | howmany1 = | howmany2 = | howmany3 = | casualties1 = | casualties2 = | casualties3 = | casualties_label = | notes = }} During the 2012 North Belfast Riots sectarian disorder and rioting between loyalists and republicans occurred when rival parades, authorised by the Parades Commission, took place. ==12 July riot== The first incident occurred on 12 July 2012 during the "The Twelfth" Loyalist celebrations. Catholic rioting had been common in recent years when the parades were forced through the mostly Irish nationalist Ardoyne in North Belfast. The local Orangemen paraded down the predominantly Ulster loyalist Crumlin Road towards the loyalist Woodvale area. Before turning into the Woodvale they were met by Irish republican protesters and a nearby counter-parade organised by GARC (Greater Ardoyne Residents Association). Nationalists then attacked the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the parade with bricks, bottles and petrol bombs. There was also violence in the Bogside area of Derry, where petrol bombs were thrown at police and a car set alight. In south and east Belfast there were five arrests for a variety of offences including disorderly behaviour. Prolonged attacks on the PSNI by Catholics followed the parades with missiles being thrown at police lines. Three cars were hijacked and pushed at police lines with at least one of them being set on fire, and at night 10 shots were fired at police by a nationalist gunman who intended to kill police officers. On 18 July 2012, a 47-year-old man was charged with attempted murder of the police officers. The PSNI blamed the violence on "thugs" and made a further 26 arrests across Northern Ireland relating to the trouble. In another incident during a different parade, a Shankill Road-based loyalist band "The Young Conway Volunteers" was filmed by a Sinn Féin activist playing the "The Famine Song" outside St Patricks Catholic Church in Ardoyne.〔 The activist filming the incident was attacked by band members who tried to snatch the phone from him. The incident brought condemnation, with Sinn Féin declaring it "provocative."〔 Protestant church leaders also condemned the incident as "blatantly sectarian". It was this incident that was believed to have ignited tensions in the area which continued over the next few months. In the days that followed strong loyalist criticism was levelled at the Parades Commission blaming them for the violence. Nigel Dodds of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) accused the Parades Commission of making a "bizarre, crazy, and mad decision" to allow the nationalist parade to coincide with the Orange parade while Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly blamed the Orangemen for violating regulations set out by the Parades Commission. The Parades Commission denied responsibility, explaining "We have to balance the rights of everybody concerned in parades, not just the rights of paraders, but the rights of people who live in the areas and the rights of police officers."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2012 North Belfast riots」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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