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Sat 06 Jun 2009An easy target for the hate mobs
NEWS FEATURES:The much-invoked mantra that ‘racism is the new sectarianism’ has been used to explain the latest attacks on immigrant families in Belfast, but it’s much more complicated than that, wqrites FIONOLA MEREDITHin Belfast
THE PICTURES of Romanian children, their pale, perplexed faces pressed against the windows of the bus taking them away after their south Belfast homes came under attack from racist youths, said it all. Once more, Northern Ireland was in disgrace, marked by yet another stain of shame on its international reputation.
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