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UK: PORTADOWN: ORANGE ORDER STAND OFF WITH POLICE (V)

(4 Jul 1999) English/Nat Voiced By: Philippa Meagher The annual march by the Protestant Orange Order through Portadown, Northern Ireland, hasn't sparked the violence that many feared it would. British soldiers and police on Sunday blocked the marchers from entering the town's Catholic areas -- part of the Order's traditional route. Protestant leaders calmed the crowd to ensure there were no clashes with police. Senior Orangemen then stepped forward to hand officers a letter protesting the blockade. VOICE-OVER: 00.03 The Orange Order parade has been a source of violence since 1995, when Catholics took it upon themselves to block the march, which they regard as triumphalist. 00.13 On Sunday, leading Orangemen made a peaceful bid to lift the barrier preventing them from passing along their traditional parade route - Garvaghy Road. 00.21 At the barricade, they handed a policemen a letter of protest, saying they expected a response from Prime Minister Tony Blair by 6 pm local time. 00.31 But they appeared intent on avoiding the violence of past years, telling supporters to stay back from the barrier, then retracing their steps. 00.40 An extra 13-hundred troops and 700 police were put in place to try to stop any violence in the wake of the parade. They erected a barbed-wire fence, and dammed a stream to divide the two communities. 00.54 Orange Order marchers saw the restriction of the route by the Parades Commission as an infringement of their rights. 01.03 SOT: (English) Vox Pop "It's been done for years, walking down this Garvaghy Road and the government seems to be going against the Protestant people and that homeland ours. And IRA- Sinn Fein is getting away with whatever they want to do." 01.20 SOT: (English) Vox Pop "As British citizens we should all be equal and we should be able to express our cultural identity and that has been denied to us today." 01.28 Last year's PORTADOWN parade turned into a standoff which sparked nightly skirmishes at the barrier between unionists and police. 01.35 The violence ended only when three young boys were killed in a firebomb attack on a Catholic home. 01.43 Vision Ends Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...