Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [From one of the citadels of human rights, civilisation, open-kiss-my-arse wretched imperialist powers comes this inspiring report. Like bullying cowards always they pick on targets - inside and outside their countries - that can't possibly defend themselves. Proud of your despicable self, Tony Blair? Jack Straw?] Tuesday September 4 8:48 AM ET Protestants Terrorize N.Irish Girls Second Day By Louise McCall BELFAST, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Irate Protestants hurling stones and abuse terrorized scores of Roman Catholic girls for a second day Tuesday as they walked to school under massive security in Belfast. Columns of military trucks and police with riot shields formed a corridor for the children, some as young as three, to enter a school in a Protestant area of north Belfast, where there was widespread rioting overnight. ``I was really terrified, I was really scared,创 said six-year-old Roisin, who entered the Holy Cross Girls Primary School under police protection, past mobs of Protestants. Similar scenes at the same school Monday prompted comparisons with attempts to desegregate schools in the American south in the 1950s. Unlike Monday, when there were gaps in police security, the Protestants were held mostly onto side streets and their numbers were smaller, but they were just as angry. ``Fenian bastards,创 some shouted, while others yelled ``You are the scum of the earth.创 Fenians were pro-independence Irish agitators in the 19th century. One policeman apparently suffered a broken collarbone when a pipe bomb was thrown at police lines, police said. At least 10 other police were injured by objects thrown, police said, but they reported no injuries to the girls or their parents. Most of the 200 girls made it to school, either on the main road past the screaming mobs or by a back entrance. Protestants made no attempt to block access from the back. A huge force of police and army remained on hand well into the day. The scenes of raw hatred that greeted the parents trying to take their children to Holy Cross for the second day of the new school term were a major setback to the crumbling Northern Ireland peace process. ``All the armory, it磗 extraordinary that we磖e actually standing here...standing with tanks behind us,创 Father Aidan Troy, chairman of the school磗 board of governors, told Sky television. ``And let磗 remember it磗 small girls going to school.创 FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL One woman taking her two children to school, one for her first time, said her daughter would think ``every day at school is like this.创 Monday's attack made the front pages of all major British newspapers and was the lead story on television and radio news. Across the sectarian divide, Protestant and Catholic church leaders in Northern Ireland called for an end to the terrorizing of the schoolgirls. ``Nothing could justify the attacks on little children of any denomination,创 Church of Ireland primate Dr. Robin Eames said in a statement. Catholic Bishop Patrick Walsh, after meeting with parents and children at Holy Cross, said he was horrified by the scenes, and by overnight rioting, but hoped for an end to the trouble. ``I was heartened by the strong and trenchant statements made by the main Protestant church leaders appealing to people to stop their protests and blockade,创 Walsh said. SENSE OF SECURITY People in Belfast, who have become accustomed to a feeling of relative security since the 1998 Good Friday Accord brought power sharing between Protestants and Catholics in the British-ruled province, were shocked by the latest sign that hatred can blow up at the least provocation. Protestants living in the area told reporters that Catholics living nearby were to blame, for harassing people trying to go to local shops or pick up their pension checks. Parents of children at the Catholic school, which when it was built was in a mixed area that has since become mostly Protestant, were upset and outraged by the reception that greeted them Monday and again Tuesday on the Ardoyne Road, leading to the school's main entrance. ``It was a terrifying experience, it was really frightening walking here today,创 said Denise Benson, taking her 10-year-old daughter Lisa to school. ``This was a nightmare.创 Many families were put off by threats of violence from an extremist Protestant paramilitary group against any Catholics taking their children to the school. ``I take it very seriously...It would be a reason not to walk up that road because I am not under any illusion that they would not carry it out,创 said Ann, whose eight-year-old daughter attends Holy Cross School. The British government and community leaders have appealed for an end to the dispute that dates back to June, when rioting flared, inflaming tension in the city's cheek-by-jowl Protestant and Roman Catholic zones. A peace process is being negotiated in the province after cease-fires by major pro-Irish and pro-British guerrilla groups. But political wrangling and renegade violence have put the Good Friday accord under increasing strain. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! 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