<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles" id="mw8w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Troubles">The Troubles</a>: In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" id="mw9A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, the British authorities launch <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Demetrius" id="mw9Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Demetrius">Operation Demetrius</a>. The operation involves the mass arrest and internment without trial of individuals suspected of being affiliated with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">Irish Republican Army</a> (PIRA). Mass riots follow, and thousands of people flee or are forced out of their homes.<sup about="#mwt54" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_9#cite_note-10" id="mw9w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw-A">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10">Coogan, Tim Pat. <i id="mwBvo">The Troubles: Ireland's ordeal 1966–1996 and the search for peace</i>. London: Hutchinson. p. 126 <a class="external text" href="http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/intern/sum.htm" id="mwBvs" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Internment – Summary of Main Events</a></span>