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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent

Forty years on from the tragic killing of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah, activists call for renewed fight against the far right

Ahmed Iqbal Ullah
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah was attacked on the playground of Burnage high school, Manchester in 1986. Composite: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre

“For my brother Ahmed, British values meant standing up for others. It was doing right. It was supporting and looking after the underdog, whoever that may be, regardless of their colour or background,” Selina Ullah says, of the brother she lost to a senseless act of violence 40 years ago.

Ahmed Iqbal Ullah, a British Bengali schoolboy, was 13 when he was murdered in a racist attack in the playground of Burnage high school, in south Manchester, in 1986, after defending young pupils from bullying.

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