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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sam Kiley

They were driven from their homelands by violence – now Belfast riots have placed refugees under fresh attack

Children who have fled their homes in fear after their address appeared on fascist social media sites arrive sobbing at a community care centre. Women forced into hiding send out desperate appeals for food, nappies, the very basics of life – sugar, pasta, cooking oil.

In the language of foreign aid these are the pleas from Internally Displaced People – refugees so often the victims of ethnic violence and hatred abroad. But this is the United Kingdom.

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