COMBAT 18 THUGS HIT IRA GRAVE; RACE HATE BELFAST Violence spreads.Byline: VICTORIA McMAHON THIS is the scene after race hate thugs wrecked republican graves and daubed them with Combat 18 graffiti. The attack took place in Milltown Cemetery Milltown Cemetery is a cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is located on the Falls Road, a strongly republican area. It was the scene of the infamous Milltown Massacre on 16 March 1988, when loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone killed two mourners and a Provisional IRA , West Belfast, between Wednesday night and yesterday morning. Sinn Fein Sinn Fein n. An Irish political and cultural society founded about 1905 to promote political and economic independence from England, unification of Ireland, and a renewal of Irish culture. MLA MLA abbr. Modern Language Association MLA n abbr (BRIT POL) (= Member of the Legislative Assembly) → miembro de la asamblea legislativa MLA (Brit Paul Maskey said the attack was linked to those on the Romanian community in South Belfast. He added: "A considerable amount of damage has been done to the graves. This attack comes in the aftermath of a series of racist attacks on Romanian families in the city. "The English fascist group Combat 18 has well established links with unionist paramilitaries in Belfast. "The attacks on the Romanian families all emanated from within unionist areas. Unionist leaders must do more. "No unionist leader has contacted the National Graves Association or families of those buried in the graves desecrated to offer assistance. "We do not see any flow of information from within that community to the PSNI PSNI Police Service of Northern Ireland (UK) PSNI Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland PSNI Professional Systems Network, Inc. either on the attack on the republican graves or indeed more worryingly on the disgraceful attempts to drive the Romanian community from the city." He added the attacks are a problem which have not yet been properly addressed by unionists or the PSNI. He said: "Otherwise they would have stopped years ago." CAPTION(S): ANGER Leading republican Gerry Storey surveys damage at Milltown Cemetery yesterday |
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