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Thread #74898   Message #1314045
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
02-Nov-04 - 09:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: Study: 100,000 Iraqis Killed by US war
Subject: RE: BS: Study: 100,000 Iraqis Killed by US war
OK, I hear you Mick. (Said this at the time but must have pressed the wrong button.) There is certainly a tendency when thinking of Ireland-related violence for many in the UK to think only IRA, to the extent of overlooking the sickening actions of some loyalist factions.
Right now, ultra-right loyalist paramilitaries are beating up immigrants in Belfast, Craigavon, Ballymena etc at the rate of scores a month, and it is barely mentioned in the London papers.

It is true that most immigrants are being settled in loyalist estates (because that is where the available housing stock happens to be), and I don't know what reception they would get in nationalist areas. But that doesn't alter the wrongness of what the loyalist thugs are doing, nor does it excuse the deafening silence from those elected to represent them - to which silence the paramilitary-turned-politician David Ervine is an honorable and admirable exception). Sorry for wandering off-topic here.