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The Director of Services of the Grand Orange Lodge has condemned
intimidation of people based on race, colour or creed.
He said such attacks could never be right, whoever they were
directed against Orange Halls or ethnic communities.
Speaking at the dedication of a new banner for Ballykilbeg
LOL 1040, Downpatrick, County Down, he said that "The
intimidation of people because of their race, colour, creed,
or political belief can never be right, whether it is directed
against Protestants or members of the Orange Order, or ethnic
minorities in Belfast. Such attacks are the work of closed
minds and empty brains.
"Because you do not like someone does not give you the
right to remove them from the neighbourhood. We as a Protestant
people are well aware of the impact of ethnic cleansing, because
we suffered it in the Irish Free State in the early 1920s
and it resulted in an exodus of tens of thousands of innocent
people, and the murder of others."
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