BBC News - Republicans to hold Belfast anti-internment parade 9 August 2013 Last updated at 06:20 Republicans are to hold an anti-internment parade along Royal Avenue in Belfast city centre on Friday evening. The march, which starts in north Belfast, is being held to coincide with the introduction of internment in Northern Ireland in 1971. The Parades Commission has given permission for six loyalist protests against the parade. Numbers have been restricted at four of them. The DUP has called on Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers to ban the anti-internment march. After meeting with police on Thursday, assembly member Nelson McCausland said Chief Constable Matt Baggott should recommend to Ms Villiers that the parade should not take place.