Pogroms against Irish Communities with Increasing Violence

27.9.2001  888  Eyewitness report: a night of sectarian loyalist violence

09.9.2001  888  Comment on the violence against school girls in Ardoyne, North-Belfast

03.9.2001  888  Children terrorized in corridor of hate

03.9.2001  888  33year old mother of three could escape loyalist kidnapping

25.8.2001  888 Lifelong friends driven apart

18.8.2001  888 Comment on the list of sectarian attacks 2000

16.8.2001 888 Media Media coverage of pogrom playing into hands of loyalists: Maskey

13.8.2001  888 List of sectarian attacks 2000

Features and Analysis by Laura Friel in An Phoblacht/Republican News

28.6.2001  888 Not to be seen nor heard

01.5.2001  888  One woman's story

01.5.2001  888 Yaba daba doo, Any excuse will do

14.4.2001  888 Freedom from sectarian harassment

Pat Finucane Centre in Derry lists Sectarian incidents

The Pat Finucane Centre from Derry publish monthly lists of secatrian incidents and attacks.A full dossier of sectarian attacks from January 1999 until May 2001 is available on their website.
The lists shows that sectarian violence is not a fight between two communities. Although there are anti-protestant sectarian attacks, they are rare and single incidents whereas most of the incidents are anti-catholic sectarian attacks. They appear as orchestrated campaigns. Anti-catholic rassism has been instrumentalized by British and Unionist politics. To the contrary Irish nationalist and republican struggle was against British occupation and for equality and not sectarian.    

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