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 Saturday April 19, 2003 11:20 by Cllr Eoin O'Broin - Sinn Fein eoinobroin at hotmail dot com
 Tension mounts as marching season starts Members of the UDA launched an attack on nationalist homes on the North Belfast interface of Limestone Road. At 10pm on Friday night, 19th April, a crowd of loyalists threw bottles, bricks and at least three pipebombs. No injuries were recorded. The Limestone Road is one of a number of interfaces which for two years, bore the brunt of UDA violence. Since September of this year the interfaces have been relatively quiet. Many commentators attributed this to the fued within Loyalism. Fears are now mounting that with the Loyal Orders marching season approaching, loyalist violence at Belfasts interfaces may return. The following is a report from the BBC/NI web site. It ignores the pipebombings and involvement of the UDA and presents the attack on nationjalist homes as mindless tit for tat youth rioting. Rioters took to the streets of Belfast last EasterTwo large groups of youths have been involved in rioting in north Belfast. The youths threw bricks, bottles, paint and fireworks at each other. The Army was called to help deal with the trouble. This trouble comes as a group with links to loyalist paramilitaries warned that violence in interface areas of Belfast over Easter could lead to "another summer of mindless violence". The Ulster Political Research Group called on loyalists and republicans to ensure there was no repeat of the riots that erupted last Easter and did not calm until after the Protestant marching season. The UPRG, which has links with the Ulster Defence Association, said tensions were high in interface areas of the city where Catholics and Protestants live side by side. Interface UPRG spokesman Frankie Gallagher said loyalist activists would try to prevent trouble breaking out in flashpoint areas. "If you look back at last year when trouble flared at Easter it didn't stop until October," he said. "We would also encourage all those with influence to promote dialogue across the interfaces and between local residents and loyal institutions." |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6If you are going to attack Protestants, then they will defend themselves.
I presume/hope that the comment just above purporting to be a member of the Socialist Party is a hoax, or a attempt at satire?
I wish everyone in Norn Iron would change the record. Just about all of us in the Free State are sick of it.
On average the unionist paramilitaries have launched over 500 pipe bombs over three years (conservative PSNI figures). This does not include blast bombs, assaults, and the killing of nationalists (including killing at least two protestants "by mistake").
Over 2,000 nationalists have been forced out of their homes in Antrim alone.
In the mainly Nationalist Short Strand, a significant number of Protestants live. Such is the virulence of unionist sectarianism; they fear loyalist paramilitary attacks because they are regarded as traitors for living with nationalists.
Unionist politicians have either ignored these attacks, blamed republicans (including the claim by the head of the PSNI Belfast policing partnership, the UUP's Jim Rodgers, that nationalists were bombing themselves), or, when forced to, have engaged in generalised condemnations. When the unionist paramilitaries were shooting themselves the same unionist politicians called on them to desist and to put their "pressure" where it was needed: on republicans!
If this is news to those reading this, it is because the media in the South has not reported it. It has been reported in The Irish News, published in Belfast and in An Phoblacht.
Ask the mainstream southern media why they are ignoring this story.
Speak for yourself and your West Brit comrades only you dickhead
The above comments attributed to me are not in fact mine. Someone has been deliberately posting up misleading comments under my name.