Dale Farm, the ethnic question

At our Newspaper course today, we looked at the Dale Farm evictions that started in the morning. One of the stories aspects that I identified is the ethnical problem, since part of the evicted persons are gypsies and Irish travellers. They suggested throughout the English media that they are being discriminated.

Supporters of the Dale Farm travellers community say that the Basildon council and the UK Government engaged in “ethnic cleansing”, raising a discussion over human rights vs. housing laws. The eviction that started on Wednesday morning in Dale Farm, the largest travellers community in the UK, was compared in the media with the clearances of Roma camps in Italy and France.