Monday, July 12, 2021

Keeping the peace

Serbs informed me what a putative peace-building trip
to Northern Ireland had actually taught them.
'We need bigger walls,' one said.

                 Peter Geoghegan, 2015 article in The Guardian 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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