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Masked 'racist' statue protests across Glasgow as activists slam 'celebration of brutal colonialists'

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racist’ Scottish statues which celebrated ‘brutal colonialists’.The anti-racism campaigners staged their socially distanced demo at a number of Glasgow sites including the city’s John Moore and Lord Roberts statues saying they glorified a history of profiting from slavery and colonialism.Their rally was designed to publicise United Nations Anti Racism Day on March 20, a global day of action against racism backed by the TUC trade union federation.The statue of Lord Roberts in Kelvingrove Park, dates from 1916.

Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts, of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford made his reputation as a soldier and national hero in the colonial wars of India and Afghanistan and the Boer War in South Africa.

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