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Asian youth stabbed
artdoc August=1994

Eighteen year old Shah Mohammad Ruhul Alam was fighting for his
life after being stabbed by a gang of ten white youths in a
racist attack in Poplar, Tower Hamlets, east London. The
stabbing, which took place at the end of May, is one of a spate
of racist attacks that have centred on the Poplar Recreation
Ground since the British National Party lost their only
councillor in the by-election in Tower Hamlets in May. One man
has been charged in connection with the attack.
Limehouse police district, where the attack took place,
recorded 858 racist incidents during 1992, almost doubling the
figure for the previous year. It is widely accepted that recorded
attacks reflect only a small percentage of actual attacks and the
Newham Monitoring Project warned that the figures represent only
the tip of the iceberg.

Statewatch, Vol 4 no 4, July-August 1994

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