Justice at last for the forgotten victims of sectarian murder in Dundalk
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Justice at last for the forgotten victims of sectarian murder in Dundalk |
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6 July 2007: Statement
from the Pat Finucane Centre “While
carrying out research the PFC recently discovered a document outlining the
British military view of its own role, function, successes and failures from
1969 to 2006. The document, Operation Banner-An Analysis of Military
Operations in Northern Ireland, offers an unprecedented and deeply worrying
insight into the thinking of senior military officers and civil servants at the
Ministry of Defence in Whitehall. Above all the document betrays a profoundly
colonial mindset towards the conflict here and those involved in it. From the
perspective of Whitehall the rolling hills of Tyrone and Armagh might as well
have been the Hindu Kush a century ago. Significant
dates are wrong while significant historical events have been omitted or
misinterpreted. Loyalist violence and the links between loyalist paramilitaries
and the state has been airbrushed out of this military history, prepared
‘under the Direction of the Chief of the General Staff’. In 2006, when the
document was written, the CGS was General Mike Jackson who drew up the notorious
‘shot list’ in the hours after Bloody Sunday. The British
Government has long sought to portray its role here as that of the neutral
broker, the referee between two warring factions. This document, which was not
intended to be made public, makes no such pretence. According to the MoD there
was only one war and one enemy -the IRA. Loyalist
paramilitaries on the other hand were ‘respectable’. This deeply flawed document is powerful evidence of why we
need to deal with the past honestly and openly. We have written to Defence
Secretary Des Browne demanding that the MoD withdraw this document and that he
write to specific families in Derry and South Armagh to apologise for comments
contained in the text.
It is clear that
the document was not intended to be put in the public domain. We are making it
temporarily available on our website in case the MoD attempts to restrict
access. www.patfinucanecentre.org
The Irish News will be providing extensive analysis of the document over the
coming days. Please
delete all other PFC email addresses and replace with info@patfinucanecentre.org
Madden & Finucane Solicitors 88 Castle Street Belfast BT1 1HE Tel: 028 9023 8007 Fax: 028 9043 9276 enquiries@madden-finucane.com www.madden-finucane.com **********************************************************************
I Top I Produced in association with the Ludlow Family. Last edited: 09 July 2007 16:23:19
Visit the Ludlow family's website. Visit Justice for the Forgotten Statement by John Oliver Weir Download the Barron Report (pdf file) on the Dundalk bombing. Download the Barron Inquiry Report into the 17 May 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, (pdf file) Barron Report: on the Dublin Bombings of 1972 and 1973, can also be downloaded in pdf form Download the Barron Report into the murder of Seamus Ludlow from the Oireachtas website (pdf file)
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