A Human Rights Windbag
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
IN the very early days of the Troubles a reporter from
British television, freshly arrived from `the mainland', was
interviewing a woman on the Falls Road. He was perplexed at
the degree of nationalist alienation and he asked the woman
what had happened to her and her neighbours' homes. The woman
said, ``They came down >from up there with bricks and petrol
bombs and burnt us out, one after the other, in the middle of
the night.