The North is being failed, this is by design.
A report in 2020 suggested 12,500 loyalist paramilitary members. We have experienced the third year of pogroms with precisely the same terror groups responsible. And yet..
1. No COBRA meeting convened.
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1935 - 2026. Same supremacist violence strategy, new targets.
‘What you’re seeing is a race based pogrom’.
(Claire Hanna MP, 2026) [7/7]
We are 91 years on from the 1935 Belfast pogroms. Brutality that echoes throughout our history. [1/7]
Less than 10 days ago End Deportations Belfast submitted written evidence to UK Parliament's NI Affairs Committee inquiry on 'Reconciliation'. Our response focused on paramilitarism, policing and racist violence. Our submission seems prophetic given what has transpired in Belfast this week.
Impunity for those who carried out the violence. [6/7]
The Irish Independent highlights the suffering of Northern Catholics. Forcible displacement, refugees, fear, extreme violence, the slashing of ‘signs of the cross’ on targets of violence using razor blades. [4/7]
Agitators and inciters of the pogrom were privileged by the state and security forces. [3/7]
Pogroms are nothing new, but a recurring feature of supremacism. The 1935 pogrom, 13 years post formation of N. Ireland was reported across the world for its ‘carnage and destruction.’ [2/7]
End Deportations Belfast
Endless streams of crying and bewildered children. Displaced population of old and young, men and women. [5/7]