Adistinguished and independent panel of international lawyers yesterday (Monday) reported on its two-year inquiry into 25 incidents involving the murders of 76 people. These were sectarian murders carried out by loyalist paramilitaries from mid-Ulster between 1972 and 1977.
The panel found strong evidence of collusion between members of the British security forces, mainly the RUC and the UDR, in 24 out of the 25 incidents, and therefore 74 out of the 76 murders. The evidence came from credible statements and forensics.
Policemen and soldiers helped paramilitary gangs to murder men, women and children, most of them Catholics. In some cases, policemen and soldiers were part of the loyalist paramilitary gangs. In some cases, they donned masks to murder, then RUC uniforms to investigate. ... Read more
As many as 74 murders by a loyalist paramilitary gang in Ireland during the mid-1970s may have involved collusion with serving police and soldiers, an international lawyers' report alleged yesterday.
The independent inquiry focused on allegations that some of the worst atrocities of the Troubles - including the 1974 bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, which killed 33 people - were carried out by an Ulster Volunteer Force faction operating under security force protection from a farm near Glennane, County Armagh. ... Read more
 A PANEL of international investigators has revealed strong evidence of British Government collusion in the Dublin-Monaghan bombings.
For two years, investigators have been examining 25 separate incidents involving the murders of 76 people which occurred north and south of the Border during the Troubles.
They have concluded that members of the security forces — the former RUC and now defunct UDR — actively colluded with the loyalist UVF in dozens of sectarian murders of Catholics.
It will also be claimed that the British Government chose to ignore evidence of this from the early 1970s. ... Read more
A US academic has described his shock at the extent of apparent security force collusion in loyalist paramilitary murders in Northern Ireland.
University of Notre Dame human rights law Professor Douglass Cassel was commenting after an international investigation he headed uncovered considerable and credible evidence of British Army and police collusion in 74 sectarian murders during the 1970s.
The probe of 25 loyalist atrocities, carried out by a panel of human rights experts from around the world, found senior Royal Ulster Constabulary officers were aware and approved of collusion while officials in London had enough information to intervene. ... Read more |
As many as 74 murders by a loyalist paramilitary gang in Ireland during the mid-1970s may have involved collusion with serving police and soldiers, an international lawyers' report alleged yesterday.
