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Article: Riots in Rostock
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 27, 1992
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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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