Orangeism's anti-Catholic blitz
The past week has seen an arson blitz against Catholic homes,
chapels and businesses. Within the first 48 hours of the Drumcree
stand-off 73 Catholic homes and 71 businesses were attacked, 136
cars had been hijacked and another 213 badly damaged, dozens of
roads have been blocked by burning vehicles and loyalist
protestors and gunmen have attacked the RUC on numerous
occasions. Much of the damage caused by loyalists in North
Belfast was against Catholic Churches and primary schools.
Family's lucky escape
In the early hours of the morning of Saturday 4 July, two petrol
bombs were thrown at the Antrim home of a Catholic family as they
slept, causing extensive damage to the exterior of the building.
On the same night a caller to a Belfast newsroom claiming to be
from the Mid-Ulster UVF warned that if Orangemen were attacked on
the streets by the security forces, then the UVF would consider
it an ``act of war''.
On Tuesday night tourists from Australia and England came under
attack when a Catholic owned guesthouse in Carrickfergus was
petrol bombed in the early hours of Tuesday 7 July. The owners
were sitting in the front room of their guesthouse when thugs
used an iron bar to break the double-glazed window before
throwing three potentially lethal petrol bombs through the
window.
A hostel for the homeless in Castlereagh Street, in east Belfast,
had to be evacuated after it was attacked by a mob wielding iron
bars smashed windows.
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