Article: Riots in Rostock

IN CASE anyone was starting to think German unification was past its most difficult stage, the ghastly outbreak of racial violence in Rostock last weekend, still continuing as of yesterday, should cancel the illusion. Four days of rioting and attacks on foreigners waiting for political asylum, followed by the burning of their shelter and battles with 1,000 police who spirited 200 Vietnamese and Romanian Gypsy refugees to safety, suggest that there is continuing and apparently deepening anger, frustration and fear about the future among Germans on both sides of the former East-West divide. Nor is the violence confined anymore to the so-called skinheads or "antisocial" youth gangs who ...

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