The marches, commonly referred to as the Orange Walk, are celebrations which mark Prince William of Orange's victory over King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

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"More sites have been destroyed in Orange Walk by the Ministry of Works and others for road fill material than in any other part of the country, " the association said it was told by an unnamed senior government official.

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As I watched them walk past a Confederate monument and enter an orange-brick building where African-Americans in the 1960s were arrested for demanding equal voting rights, it was hard not to see the parallels.

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People were sickened at the thought and asked themselves whether the right to walk along a particular stretch of road dressed in a bowler hat and orange sash was worth the lives of three young boys.

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