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Originally Posted by Coatsy
Thousands of innocent people in Northern Ireland murded by the IRA, funded by America
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Oh, please. The generally accepted number is that since the troubles began, the provisional IRA has killed 1800 people, of which 650 were civilians. The rest were either police, army, or paramilitary members (both loyalist and dissident republicans), all of which i believe are legitimate targets. And i say that knowing full well that i had family in the RUC. I'm sick to death of hearing of these "thousands of innocent people" that the IRA has supposely murdered. 650 innocent people is 650 too many, though.
Irish people tried to have a peaceful civil rights movement. It didn't work. They were shot in the streets by the army, or brutalised by the B Specials (loyalist thugs given a uniform and weapons by the RUC). Have you heard any of the radio transmission evidence from the Saville inquiry into Bloody Sunday? Gotta love hearing senior officers talking about how it was a great day and how they had a good ol' laugh about it.
Let's not forget the testimony of one of the soldiers, who said the plan was to take out a few "soft targets" to bring the provos out into a gun fight so that they could then blame the incident on the IRA. How unbelievably sinister is that? Reporters estimated that there were no more than 5 shots returned at british soldiers, and only AFTER the british had begun killing innocent civil rights marchers.
What about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. There were over 30 people killed in those bombings, and Judge Cory (the canadian judge appointed to investigate collusion between british forces and loyalist paramilitaries) said there is no doubt that there was collusion. His exact words?
?Was there collusion? There certainly was,? Judge Cory said
Ever question why the british government pushed through the inquiries bill so quickly before the Nelson and Finucane inquiries were to begin? They are scared shitless of collusion being made public.
Before the troubles started, the majority of the nationalist community was not interested in a pro-active IRA. They merely wanted defence from loyalist thugs and corrupt police officers. Are you even aware that the british army was initially brought into northern ireland to protect nationalists and catholics from loyalists and the police? Imagine that, needing to use your army to protect a portion of your citizens (whether they recognize it or not) from their own police force.