A flick through reports of "terror squads targeting teenagers with public humiliation punishments" in the Belfast Telegraph gives some insight into the environment faced by young people growing up amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Not every teenager is going to be tarred, covered in sawdust and chained to a lamppost - as a youth was in the town of Rathcoole, north of Belfast, last May - or forced to wear placards denouncing themselves as "scum".
But incidents such as these highlight the fact that Northern Ireland is a difficult place to grow up in, despite the fact that, on the surface, political and religious tension and segregation may have eased in recent times.
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