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What happened at the Anti-Poll Tax rally
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in London, England
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on Saturday 31st March 1990
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Recorded and transcribed by Martim Guy, April 1990
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On the 31st of March, over a hundred thousand people*
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*) Estimates vary \- see the text.
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marched to Trafalgar Square in London to register their protest at the
introduction of the Poll Tax in England and Wales.
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In mid-afternoon, violence erupted between the police and the crowd.
The incident which started the violence, a man being run down by a
police van, was shown on the six-o'clock news on ITV, but was not shown
on later news broadcasts.
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This report contains transcriptions of conversations with people who
were at the demonstration on Saturday, recorded from the 1st to the 4th
of April 1990.  The conversations are people's responses to
the question: ``What did you see at the Poll tax march on Saturday?''.
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They expose many incidents that are otherwise unreported,
and shed light on the amount of control the police had over the situation,
and on the question of what caused and inflamed the violence on that day.
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