Expert says Belfast paramilitaries forced children into pogroms to clear drug debts

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Belfast — The Commissioner for Children and Young People in the north of Ireland has said loyalist paramilitaries pressured children to engage in violent racist pogroms, in return for writing off money owed to those same gangs. Chris Quinn was speaking to the Irish News. He said the money owed might be “drug debts” or “could be loans”. He gave examples of what he came across first hand when present at racist disorder in Glengormley. Quinn said: We have been informed by reliable people working with these young people, that some of those were brought there to clear debts. I heard an…

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Gaza — from the yellow line to forced removal

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Under Phase One of Trump’s 20 Point “Peace Plan” for Gaza, Israeli occupation forces withdrew to a pre-designated line, the “yellow line”. During the ‘ceasefire,’ one in every three Palestinians killed were east of the yellow line The yellow line separates Gaza into two zones, and has crammed more than two million Palestinians into a narrow coastal strip of land. The land to the west of the yellow line is controlled by Hamas. That to the east is under the direct control of the Israel occupation’s military and, in October 2025, this area made up approximately 53 percent of the Gaza…

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