A five-day-old girl is among more than 100 Romanian people who have spent the night in a church hall after fleeing their homes in south Belfast.
The group of about 20 families said they left their homes in the Lisburn Road area after suffering racist attacks for almost a week.
…Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said it was a “totally shameful episode” in the city.
“We need a collective effort to face down this criminals in society who are quite clearly intent on preying on vulnerable women and children,” he said.
…in some parts of Belfast racism had become the new sectarianism.
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I believe that this shameful violence against Romanian immigrants in Belfast is a sign of things to come elsewhere in Britain and Europe as the global economic crisis worsens.
Multicultural societies are relatively easy to keep peaceful when money is plentiful and there are no substantial challenges to the relentless pro-diversity propaganda and the myth it engenders.
The problems get really serious when events on the ground – like riots and ethnic intimidation - destroy the myth.
Belfast is a troubled city, with a violent past and a long history of sectarianism and community violence. It comes as no surprise to many that the sectarian bigots have found new targets for their hatred,. But this violence is also a warning. The people who flood in during the good times end up the scapegoats during bad times.
The government needs to be ready for this, and decent people – like those Belfasters who protested in support of their Romanian neighbours – need to be ready to mobilise, and when needed, fight.
This sort of thuggery is utterly unacceptable and deeply shameful for we Irish.
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Hi:
I live in the USA, but I am originaly from Transylvania, which is a provence of Romania. I do not approve of the attacks against the gypsies in Ireland or against anyone elsewhere. However, nor do I approve of the gypsies being called Romanians either. The people of Romania are Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Serbs, and many others, including the gypsies ( they like to call themselves rromi – not Romanians). In Romania we call them tigani. Their language sounds farsi or persian…nothing to do with Romanian language, which sounds like a mix of French and Italian, plus it has some German in it too..
They do not even look like the Romanian people..
Those attacked in Belfast are gypsies, who are nomads and travel from place to place. What most gypsies do for living, such as stealing and begging, is what brought this hate upon them. They have no respect for any local government, Romanian, Italian, or other, they have their own rule, they have their own king ( called bulibasa), yes, so basically they are people with no country… but if they minded their own business and worked honestly, then they would have been left alone.
If you read the Romanian blogs about this, you will see that Romanians want to completely disassociate from the gypsies, because they do not want everyone to think that all Romanians are gypsies or act like the gypsies. Please ask the many British tourists who visit Romania all the time, especially during the Winter seasons, when they come to Transylvania to ski-I suggest that BBC interviews some of them, so people of GB will know how the average Romanian looks, talks, works, and lives… nothing even close to the way gypsies live. I never thought I would have to be ashamed to say I am Romanian because of these gypsy bastards… all they do is steal, beg, and have bunches of uneducated kids, so they can collect government checks. They are also remnants of the Romanian Communist Regime, which luckily ended in 1989, but until then birthcontroll was basically inexistent ( abortion and birthcontroll pills were illegal, but you could find condoms); smart people learned what they needed to do to protect themselves- they consulted doctors, nurses, and the average Romanian family did not have more than two kids. But the gypsies multiplied like crazy because they were stupid, could not afford to raise their kids, and then put them in orphanages..
And yes, this is another painfull label that Romania carries: if anyone recalls the documentaries of early 1990′s done by a British tv reporter about one orphanage in Romania- those poor kids were gypsy kids… The regular Romanians would never put their kids in orphanages…not matter how tough life was.
I had to get this off my chest…. Thanks.
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