Pressure group #StopAttacks committed to creating a society where communities are free from violence and trauma inflicted by criminal gangs #nonviolence
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Remember those 'defenders of women and girls'...?
One in three arrested for Ballymena racist riots had been reported for domestic abuse - @TheDetailTV @lukejbutterly
ALT Image of racist violence with headline: One in three arrested for Ballymena riots had been reported for domestic abuse - screenshot from The Detail article by Luke Butterly
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Another appalling human rights abuse in Belfast last night. These attacks remain the mechanism of control by criminal gangs, who masquerade as community defenders to hide their own shady acts. Join with us in condemning these & demanding that they cease.
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If you take out the children involved (the youngest child arrested was 11 years old) who wouldn’t have been known to police the percentage of adult rioters with previous DV history is actually higher than 48%
Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse - Investigations & Analysis - Northern Ireland from The Detail thedetail.tv/articles/almost…
Another young man brutalised, with all the hallmarks of a paramilitary-style human rights abuse. Gunmen 'randomly' on the street - were they waiting for him or arranged to meet him there in a premeditated organised attack? This is control, not protection.
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When will these gangs get off the backs of our communities #stopattacks
UDA loan sharks extorting money from woman whose son took own life over drug debt.
4 years after his death paramilitary money lenders still demanding weekly payments from his mum. life-over-drug-debt/a1789059077.html | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk sundayworld.com/crime/irish-…
The reality of how criminal gangs, using paramilitary labels to justify their existence, hold communities to ransom - using attacks to ensure their controls exist & maintain their status. Making money by exploiting through fear & intimidation.
Together, we must call for an end.
Pay not to be shot - families and young people are handing over cash to avoid arranged paramilitary attacks - @StopAttacks1
Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
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Our campaign's contributor on this morning's @BBCNolan highlighting the brutal reality of these barbaric attacks. Blatant human rights & child abuses. Carried out by those who want to keep their power and control over their areas. Together we need civic courage to call these out.
"If you show up you'll be shot once or twice - if you fail to show up you'll be shot more often"
Youth worker Keifer @StopAttacks1
Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
Our campaign's contributor on this morning's @BBCNolan highlighting the brutal reality of these barbaric attacks. Blatant human rights & child abuses. Carried out by those who want to keep their power and control over their areas. Together we need civic courage to call these out.
"If you show up you'll be shot once or twice - if you fail to show up you'll be shot more often"
Youth worker Keifer @StopAttacks1
Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
Our campaign group highlighting the issue of paramilitary-style human rights abuses on @BBCNolan this morning. These attacks are a scourge on our communities. Support our stance with the civic courage to call these for what they are and to call for them to end permanently.@
"They're given a place and a time to go - and they're shot or beaten"
Keifer from @StopAttacks1 has worked with "many dozens" of young men placed under threat of paramilitary assault
Podcast 📲 @BBCSounds
Use of 'soft' language around these human rights abuses only contributes to playing down their brutality & significant traumatic impacts. The more our language fails to speak of abuse, coercive control & devastating trauma, then the longer these attacks remain part of our fabric.
BREAKING - Man suffers 'serious and potentially life-changing injuries' after shooting, police say
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Another young person beaten by paramilitary gangs. This is child abuse and they are enabled and empowered by our politicians and ministers who continue to meet and enable them. We need to #stopattacks now and remove these gangs from our communities belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunda…
This is a very important piece by @siobhanmc74
@AislingSwaine outlines the importance of a gendered analysis of paramilitary-related coercive control + gendered understandings and responses to threat. Hopefully this research will go some way to addressing the silence of girls and women’s experiences @FoyleFJC
This unfortunate victim's wording is wholly accurate when she refers to "criminal gangs". These threats are not about protecting a community or any political ideology - they are about control and domination. As one voice, we need to totally condemn the existence of these gangs.
“This is my hometown and I don’t know how these criminal gangs get away with this. Torturing women and children..."
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