Le: benmadigan
was shocked to read that Telegraph article – especially at the Shankhill Butchers were sectarian serial killers – in the sense that I think they would have been serial killers in any society they found...
View ArticleLe: john cronin
35% of all those killed by the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army were civilians. 51% of all those killed by the British Occupation Forces were civilians. 85% of all those killed by the British terror...
View ArticleLe: benmadigan
Thanks for the figures John – I really don’t see what they have to do with a Shankhill Butcher who was a member of a serial sectarian murder gang, stewarding an OO march/walk past a a Catholic Church...
View ArticleLe: john cronin
Does not have much to do with it all: just trying to show an sionnach’s partial and somewhat propagandistic use of stats.
View ArticleLe: ceannaire
John, so your answer to the stats of what percentage of civilian deaths attributed to each group’s actions is “but Republicans killed more Catholics than others”. The stats are not propaganda. They are...
View ArticleLe: An Sionnach Fionn
I agree with that, Ben. The Shankill Butchers were psychopaths in search of an excuse to kill. That is not to say that other forces in the conflict did not have their fair share of people with a scant...
View ArticleLe: An Sionnach Fionn
“…but the IRA and its offshoots killed about three times as many people as the loyalists.” The number of civilian fatalities by organisation, (P)IRA versus BOF and BTF: c.650: members of the civilian...
View ArticleLe: Ginger
Something that has always bothered me : if the Loyalist Paramilitaries were merely offshoots of the official state forces, how come so many of the said paramilitaries ended up being put behind bars by...
View ArticleLe: Wolfe tone
The state had to manufacture the illusion that it was a sectarian civil war and that they were in the middle keeping the peace. International appearances had to be upheld. Thus loyalists had to be sent...
View ArticleLe: benmadigan
Nationalists, Republicans IRA, INLA etc were considered to be rebelling against the lawful state.and the UK acted accordingly, coming down heavily (see reaction to London riots a couple of years ago...
View ArticleBy: seachranaidhe1
Athbhlagáladh é seo ar <a href="http://seachranaidhe1.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/the-orange-order-enough-is-enough/" rel="nofollow">seachranaidhe1</a>.
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