Today is the 13th Anniversary of the day the Travellers at Dale Farm, at one time the UK's largest static Travellers' site, walked peacefully off the land they owned (and still own) after a nearly year-long siege by bailiffs and cops ended in the most violent "eviction" I've ever experienced.

Hold on… they owned the land?!!??!??? I didn’t realise that bit. Why were they evicted, cuz home owners?

These little girls must be in their 20s, and I often wonder what their life is like now. There were so many children there, and they were happy and thriving. It was an act of ethnic cleansing. It was and act of cultural genocide. I was at Dale Farm for a month before the eviction. I still miss it.

They are so cute

Christ that seems Iike a lot longer ago.