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'We're making progress, but we still have a long way to go': The Oldham riots - 20 years on
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor the latest Oldham news sign up to the MyOldham newsletter here For Rafit Hussain the sights and sounds remain as vivid today as they did 20 years ago.
On Saturday, May 26, 2001, Mr Hussain was making his way home when he saw some teenagers throwing stones at a car in Glodwick in Oldham.
He didn't know it at the time, but he'd wandered into the midst in one of Britain's worst race riots. "The noise, the atmosphere, it was something to experience," he said. "There was smoke, petrol bombs, fires, sirens, people screaming." The flashpoint had come earlier that evening when a group of Asian teenagers, who were playing cricket near the Good Taste chip shop on Roundthorn Road, got into an argument with two white boys.
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