Belfast: Us and Them

[The Ripper]

August 2009

Kilometres of graffiti-daubed concrete walls snake through Belfast. They divide Catholic neighbourhoods from Protestant. But do these Peace Walls keep the hatred and suspicion locked outside or inside?
The consensus among the locals is clear if the walls came down there would be a return to intractable sectarian violence. If you pull that wall down therell be murder, mayhem, therell be blood spilt, says a loyalist resident. The recent killings of two soldiers, a policeman and a Catholic community worker, indicate that trouble is still very close to the surface. Theres walls of prejudice; walls that were built here 300 years ago and they're still here in legislation, in prejudice and bigotry', tells Republican Sean McVeigh. 'So those are the walls that are going to have to come down first. Are the Peace Walls monuments to the past or vital and necessary peacekeepers in the present?

Produced by ABC Australia, distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[Aces High]

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Typical pro provo cathloic slant to the documentry.....making it look like its the republicans are the ones wanting peace and harmony....when in reality it was them and in particular McGuinnes and his cronies who went around killing innocent people for their pathetic revolution.
Funny to see them nowdays harking on about peace.....shit scared of losing their comfy jobs and newfound status as MP's with all the benefits.

Anyway you wouldnt expect anything different from some pro provo,Aussy anti British film crew........you can see what sort of bias they give the doc at the end with the burning of the Irish tricolour.

[The Ripper]

Posting this in the Ireland section was also cheap political provocation on my part.

[Óttar]

I can't believe that shit is still going on in 2011.