Gangs of Ireland (15 photos)

The material below is based on article British newspaper Guardian (article: Racist war of the loyalist street gangs). The Guardian - one of the most popular newspapers in Britain, if not the most popular, refers to the left-liberal wing publications (associated with the top of the Labour Party), the publication of the article there is a description of such school-violent White Power places can not fail to impress.




The walls of the area izrisoval colorful graffiti: caught, inter alia, the emblem of the Ku Klux Klan and inscriptions such as' 'Kitaezy, get out', jammed and still stubbornly stood out on the walls, a terrible lot of labels.







In one of the houses of the quarter citizen with an exotic name Hua Long Lin watching TV at home when a man broke into the apartment and threw a brick at him, his head struck the citizen. At the same time he presents his pregnant wife in an apartment Asian couple rode just two weeks ago.



Neighbours expressed regret, but one white family told social workers that they could not offer a couple of friends of the Chinese families in public, otherwise they quickly and "right brain brick».

"It's like Nazi Germany," - they explained.



Northern Ireland, which is 99% white country, has long been a race-hate capital of Europe - Europe's capital of racial hatred. Reports UK irlantsy confidently hold the highest rate of racist attacks: they spit and throw rocks at foreigners in the streets, defecate at large on their doorstep, draw swastikas on the walls, enjoy homemade bombs, setting fire, arrange the racist raids on abandoned building with baseball bats and knives nailed to the front door of the home-made flyers with the ideology of the white supremacist's.



About more than 200 incidents reported to police in the first nine months of 2004, while it is clear that many victims did not complain.
Protestant youth of the working class on a regular basis makes the attack on the house with the objectives of "ethnic cleansing" of minorities. Sometimes strangers are killed on the streets, which run youth groups from loyalist paramilitaries, access to weapons is not a problem here. Here, the memory hangs in the air and the smell of thousands of people killed during clashes between Catholics and Protestants.



The so-called peace walls between Protestant and Catholic communities izrisoval swastikas, it is a sign that in those areas governed by the principle «keep the streets white» - «keep the streets white».
Local trade unionists and Sinn Fein, once warned that someone is likely to be killed or burned alive in their home, if not stop the racists. Everything went still.



Village in south Belfast - Loyalist homes seedy area where unemployment is high, lights are crooked, and almost every family has a connection with the loyalists. Distributed mentality "rejection of strangers." Chinese beat and kill at every opportunity. The Chinese diaspora, the largest ethnic minority in Northern Ireland, has been in Belfast since the 1960s, sitatsiya complicated when local revenues to rumors that the quota for migrant workers increases and it is held in zhizn.Stradayut not only the Chinese, in the same 2004 were burned Ugandan and Romanian family.

Family Pakistanis during lunch box received a six-foot board that laid the table for lunch and fell asleep Pakistani fragments consumers. Many elderly Chinese people do not leave their homes after 15-00. The most innocuous, what they can expect in the street - to throw in the face cream cone, or an egg can take away shopping bags.



Loyalist gang activity directly related to the well-known in the world of ultra-nationalist groups. On the streets you can find graffiti Combat 18, a great impact on the ground is the party White Nationalist party.



The local real estate agent can at any moment come to a group of strong people and express the wish not to donate the house to blacks and Asians. All the same, there is such a long time tenants will not last. Desmond Byrne, a local unionist Ulster, said: "We see a re-run, although on a smaller scale, the tactics used by the Nazis in the 1930s.»



 - "Sometimes, when I'm in the bedroom, I see that an egg is broken glass and slowly rolled it. Inscriptions on the box drawn again whenever we scrape them. Month after month. '' - Black woman sitting behind the closed curtains in her front window dome.Na it regularly draw emblem Ku Klux Klan, and slogans like "Down with the black" and "I hate blacks." Zimbabwean businesswoman 30 years, she never opens the curtains to let natural light into the house, because the sight of her in the living room - a provocation for local teenagers.



In Northern Ireland in 2004 for 4 000-5 000 Muslims, mostly born here, mosques are not built out of fear of attacks. The community worship in converted buildings belonging to it. An attempt to build a mosque stalled local authorities, arguing that the people would be worried. Population and so is hostile to Muslimov. One of the visits by locals to a large Muslim family began with a shot at the kitchen window and then one of the Muslims beaten to coma, another broken limbs and noses. Community avoids speak. Whenever this issue is raised in the media, attacks are becoming more extensive and severe.



"Imam fled from Northern Ireland after a gang of 10 people razkolotila him all the windows and knocked the door, he was told that he was here to * ui is not needed, & quot; - Iveida told Jamal, Director of Islamic Centre (Islamic Center) in Belfast. "This is - a matter of time when we will schemit thorough. Attacks more and more. I was uncomfortable in the street. I was constantly bullied and name-calling. I have a beard, so I immediately called Ben Laden or Saddam Hussein, they always say to me - '' Paki go home - Paki, Wali home '. »



Duncan Morrow involved in the management of public relations official, said that Northern Ireland for 30 years was not a country for migrants and now can not cope with the reality of multiculturalism.
Religious sectarianism is loyal to the violence and aggression in the young people, so we can say that racism has always walked side by side with religion - it was to be seen just now. He said: - "We have perceived racism is normal. The situation in Northern Ireland is similar to what happened in the UK in the 1950s. »
Members of the Chinese community talking about guys who mercilessly bullied and subjected to abuse, mocked even over the Chinese boy who won musician of the year. Political parties are under pressure and can not pursue a tough anti-racist policies in the Community, where the law of racial discrimination was only introduced 10 years ago.
Loyalists are strong and they have the potential. And racist attacks is no end in sight.