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British police start eviction of traveller camp
Oct 19, 2011, 7:34 GMT
London - British police moved Wednesday to evict hundreds of travellers illegally encamped on a farm in south-east England.
Police in riot gear moved into the site of Dale Farm, in the country of Essex, where they were met by protestors hurling bricks and bottles.
The authorities were given the green light to clear an illegal part of the camp by the courts after a long legal battle last week.
The Irish travellers, who are not gypsies, have a nomadic lifestyle and settled on 51 illegal plots at Dale Farm in the 1970s.
Irish travellers mainly came to England after the potato famine in the 1850s, and again after World War II. But many of the camps' inhabitants were born in Britain.
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