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Allegations of Northern Irish apartheid draw analogies between Northern Ireland and apartheid-era South Africa. The term "apartheid" has been increasingly used to refer to the partition of Northern Irish society into two communities which tend to reduce interaction with each other.
Education
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking stated,
"In Northern Ireland, apartheid starts in schools; 90 per cent of children in Northern Ireland still go to separate faith schools"
Peace lines
In an article titled "Apartheid", John O'Farrell refers also to :
"those peace lines - usually high walls snaking along the demographic faults, crossing roads and slicing streets in two - are proliferating: there are twice as many today as there were a decade ago."
Violence
Cédric Gouverneur, refering to a report commissionned by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, "No longer a problem ? Sectarian violence in NI", asserts that more than 1400 people have to move every year, as a consequence of intimidation, thus building a sort of apartheid in the sense of "separate development" of communities.
See also
References
- Lord Baker of Dorking, Daily Hansard, 18 July 2006 : Column 1189 www.parliament.uk, retrieved 22 July 2007
- New Statesman, 28 November 2005, newstatesman.com retrieved 22 July 2007
- Neil Jarman, Institute for Conflict Research, march 2005 http://www.serve.com/pfc/misc/violence.pdf
- Chaque année, mille quatre cents personnes doivent déménager à la suite d’intimidations pouvant aller jusqu’au meurtre (3). Ce sectarisme façonne une forme d’apartheid, au sens de « développement séparé » des communautés. www.monde-diplomatique.fr retrieved 22 July 2007, article translated as : "Northern Ireland’s apartheid"