‘Trauma still there’: A decades-old standoff returns to Northern Ireland

Portadown, Northern Ireland – When the summer holidays arrived, Chris Nelson worried about his mother.At night, he lay awake waiting for her to return. During the day, he rang family members to ask if she was safe. There were threats and letters through the door.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Three in four households go hungry in parts of Yemen amid fighting: UNlist 2 of 4US adds just 29,000 jobs as unemployment rises before midterm electionslist 3 of 4Taiwan Coast Guard confronts Chinese fishing boats in Dongsha waterslist 4 of 4How the Banco Master scandal injected chaos into Brazil’s presidential raceend of list“I was afraid to leave the house,” he told Al Jazeera.His mother, Rosemary Nelson, was a lawyer representing the Catholic residents opposing the Protestant Orange Order parade along Portadown’s Garvaghy Road in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s.Every July, as marching season approached, there was a standoff.Orangemen sought to return from Drumcree church along what they regarded as their traditional route. Residents opposed the passage of the anti-Catholic organisation through a majority Catholic street. In some years, police forced the parade through. In ...