New NIO `peace' wall fails first test.
Nationalists from the beseiged Whitewell Road area on the
outskirts of North Belfast have bitterly condemmed a series of
loyalists attacks last weekend and placed the blame for them at
the heads of the Northern Ireland Office.
Just last month,
despite numerous protests at RUC/NIO plans to erect a 150 metre
barrier wall beside Serpentine Gardens and the White City housing
estate, the wall was built. It now dominates the rear of
nationalist homes cutting out natural light while continuing
sectarian attacks prove what local residents knew all along. As
local Sinn Fein councillor Danny Lavery pointed many loyalist
attacks take place in the Greymount area at the bottom of the
Whitewell Road, on the edge of the wall, a fact he had
consistently pointed out to British government officials. Last
Friday Greymount came under attack by a 50 strong mob who came
from the loyalist Shore Crescent area. Attacks continued over the
weekend resulting in damage to cars and homes.
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