Has anyone know where Belfast (name of city) is? And what conflict has happened there?
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Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland. The island of Ireland is split in two. The South or republic of Ireland has its own government and is ruled from the capital city Dublin. The North of Ireland is governed from England and is part of the UK - united Kingdom. There are six counties in the North and twenty six in the South. At the moment due to the peace agreement there is little conflict going on. Previously paramilitary groups regularly bombed and murdered. Nationalist paramilitaries bomb and kill in hopes of a united island of Ireland and loyalist paramilitaries do the same in hope that they remain loyal to the queen and England. It's an extremely difficult situation and one that has involved the whole island of Ireland. There is alot of bitterness from the induced famine, emigration, penal laws etc. There was wrong on both sides - though I would say the British government never had the good of the people in mind or what might be right for Northern Ireland same as with the other colonies they held. The people in the North are trying to work towards a solution and a future without mindless violence and I wish them well in their endeavour.
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The issue in Northern Ireland is political not religious. The media, who is always looking for short cuts and not the whole story, calls the participants Catholics and Protestants.\n\nThe conflict is about whether the British territory (probably the wrong word) of Northern Ireland should remain British or should become part of Ireland. \n\nThe majority of people in Ireland are Catholics. The majority of people in England and Northern Ireland are Protestants. There are actually Catholics and Protestants on either side.\n\nThe terrorists on either side if the issue are not Christian in any sense of the word.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Lecture delivered by Minister Hiroyuki Kishino at the Local Government Centre (CLAIR)'s Japan Day Seminar in Belfast \n(http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/speech/060206_JLGC.html)\n\nJapan-UK Relations and Northern Ireland  \n\nDistinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, \n\nIt is a great pleasure for me to have come back to Belfast after a ten-year interval, the hometown of that great footballer, George Best. I really feel at home amid Belfast's splendid architecture and the beautiful scenery nearby. At the same time I sense that the buds of economic and social dynamism just visible ten years ago are really blooming now. I am most pleased to see you all at this Japan Day Seminar, which I believe provides an important occasion for me to learn more about Northern Ireland and to keep you updated on Japan-UK relations. \n\nAs Deputy Chief of Mission at the Japanese Embassy I have the agreeable duty of facilitating better mutual understanding between the British and Japanese peoples and of promoting the overall Japan-UK relationship. What does this mean? We often say that the main problem facing us here is that there is no pressing issue between Japan and the UK! This is not a joke, but witness to the fact that Japan-UK relations have never been better. The primary mission for us, therefore, is not necessarily to engage in trouble-shooting in the bilateral context but to formulate and coordinate policies on what Japan and the UK should do for the benefit of our two peoples as well as for the peace and stability of the world. This is a forward-looking and pleasant duty to fulfil - a real luxury only granted to those posted to a capital like London. \n\nOverall, Japan-UK relations today are solid and mature. They are functioning smoothly, based upon market mechanisms and subject to the rule of law. Government intervention is rarely required. In business, tourism, culture, education and most other respects, our ties are refreshingly free of major areas of concern. In this sense, the Thatcher government's determined approach to the Japanese government and business sector in the 1980s in pursuit of direct investment from Japan in the UK, notably by Nissan in Sunderland, has acquired anecdotal status. Meanwhile, it is seldom recalled these days that the Japanese and British governments quietly coordinated their efforts so as to come up with a final settlement of the liquor tax issue after the WTO panel had ruled against Japan in the mid-1990s. The records of these episodes are now filed away somewhere, gathering dust. \n\nMore relevant today is the fact that about 1,200 Japanese companies are operating in the UK as good corporate citizens, having put down deep roots in their respective communities. They have created around 90,000 jobs. Indeed, a number of these companies, some of them household names, go about their business as they always have done; therefore, few people are aware that they have Japanese owners. In the fashion world DAKS and Aquascutum come to mind, while Leicester-based Freed, a world-class manufacturer of toe shoes, is another example. The UK continues to be the most favoured destination in Europe for Japanese direct investment. Just last week, for example, the large pharmaceutical company Eisai announced a 75-million pound new investment in Hertfordshire. \n\nIn Northern Ireland four Japanese companies have business operations, and two of them are engaged in research and development in high-tech fields - a growing trend today. I am pleased to note that they have expanded their activities over the past decade through the enlargement of production facilities and in other ways. In addition, three Japanese companies have business tie-ups in research and development here. Yet I must say that, compared with the other regions in the UK, Japan's business presence in Northern Ireland is modest in scale even when the size of the region is taken into consideration. How come, one may ask? I do not have a s
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India.\n\nEven the British who occupied India were asked to leave in a Non-Violent Struggle.
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What a fool you are bryangarita. You have absolutely no idea do you? You don't know what it is like when bombs are going off in your city centres and in your Railway stations do you? We lived with the spectre of the provisional IRA and the INLA for years in Britain - and those of us who were of Irish catholic descent were looked upon with suspicion, banged up by the coppers and fitted up. So please get a life and grow up. It is never right to abuse people, NEVER.
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there are a couple of CNN reports on this including one\nwhich mentions Britain giving money & British ships taking evacuees. I think there's something about the prisoners from the jail being taken to another prison...\n\nhop it helps & is not too late for you
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which democratic nation and civil war are you talking about??? \nedit your question and ill be more than happy to answer
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On January 30, 1972, soldiers from the British Army's 1st Parachute Regiment opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civilian demonstrators in the Bogside, Derry, Ireland, near the Rossville flats, killing 13 and wounding a number of others. One wounded man later died from illness attributed to that shooting.
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When in Belfast, be sure to look up the headquarters of the Ulster Freedom Fighters.  They're the radical Orangemen who decorate their buildings with murals of masked gunmen carrying assault weapons and displaying the "bloody red hand", a modern symbol of terrorism in Northern Ireland.  Golly, the liberal media had you thinking that the IRA were the bad guys, right?
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Rev Trask. He's lives near here I think. Didn't he say he was from Bangor , Maine. I live in Derry.
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Cork County Hall - 64m\n\n(Liberty Hall is 59m high)\n\nps. Belfast is in Northern Ireland, not the Republic of Ireland.
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I think that Scotland and Wales both have their own identity and language and there are probably separatist movements.  Northern Ireland should be returned to Ireland IMHO.
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Dhaka. \nnote: to learn about countries, their capitals, flags, maps, governments and much much more, check out the CIA fact-book. Just make a quick search for it on google and you'll find endless information about any nation.\nActually, even if you just look for the country on Google, very often one of your first results will be the CIA fact-book!
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I know of a Dublin,OH but I don't live there.\n\nHope this helps, and good luck!
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Which country? Which fight?\n\nPeace.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991#Events
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I am assuming you are referring to Phnom Penh (the city in Cambodia) - do you have any more specifics like a time frame? There have been a lot of incidents that have happened over the years - I can help if you've got a little more info. Feel free to e-mail me at sofgrant@hotmail.com and I'll do what I can.