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Vandals went on the rampage at an Oldham cemetery, damaging headstones and daubing them with graffiti last Friday.
Muslims discovered that 25 graves were desecrated after their prayers, when they went to pay their respects to relatives buried at the Greenacres cemetery.
Some of the graves belonged to children.
The cemetery has Muslim and Christian graves. Though time only Muslim graves were targeted, Christian graves have been damaged in previous attacks.
Police confirmed they were investigating the incident.
The racist British National Party, which lost the battle for a seat in parliament, had won the war of white political protest in Oldham, securing its highest number of votes in a parliamentary election, recently.
The worst race riots in Britain in more than a decade had also traumatised families in the city of Oldham, where there were fights between rival gangs of white and Asian youths recently.
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