Reply #293: You have got to be kidding. [View All]

The killing may well get worse. The IRA represent an extremist Catholic faction, they hate Protestants and the marching Orangmen hate the Catholics. They may be minorites but they are deadly. They are all vengeful, determined and believe they have rights to that land. They still housing areas that are either purely Catholic or purely Protestant, families still risk trouble through inter-marriage.
The withdrawal of the British Army will need to be replaced by the UN peacekeepers to prevent all out war. The Irish protestants who have been living in Northern Ireland for centuries have the right to live their just as the Catholics do.
At this time Belfast has become a more tolerent cities,the peace has made it thrive and grow. They have Muslim and Hindu's living there.
What will happen to them, caught in the middle of a religious war.
If the British forces withdraw, it can not risk a bloodbath in its wake.