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Protest over ‘Polish concentration camps’

23rd October 2010

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The campaigners protested outside the WSJ offices in NY
The campaigners protested outside the WSJ offices in NY
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Outraged citizens staged a demonstration earlier this week outside the Wall Street Journal offices in New York over the paper’s use of the phrase ‘Polish concentration camps’ when referring to Nazi death camps from the Second World War.

The protests come in response to the paper’s refusal to apologise for printing the phrase in two articles earlier this year, despite a number of letters and an official ‘statement of concern’ from the Polish consulate in NY.

In addition to the waving of national flags and banners, the protestors chanted “Change the words, as they aren’t true”.
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