The Murder of Seamus Ludlow in County Louth, May 1976. Towards a public inquiry?
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Introduction to the murder of Seamus Ludlow and the official cover-up. Michael Cunningham investigation - 1978 The recent Campaign for Truth and Justice. Irish Victims Commission Report. Ludlow family's questions for the RUC (now the PSNI) Jim J. Kane's letter to the N I Human Rights Commission. Jim J. Kane's letter to the RUC Ludlow Family Letter to Bertie Ahern View messages from our original Guestbook Other Ludlow Family Sites.
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The Examiner (formerly The Crossmaglen Examiner), 5 August 2003: Victims' families demand truth about collusion Newry/Armagh Sinn Fein Spokesperson, Conor Murphy has called on people to support the demand from victims’ families that the truth is told about collusion. Mr Murphy said: "Since the creation of the Six County statelet here in the north of Ireland a campaign of state-sponsored murder and collusion with Unionist paramilitaries has existed at the highest levels of the British military and political establishment. During the last 30 years of conflict Unionist paramilitaries have been supplied with information and their actions directed and controlled by Special Branch and British Intelligence Services. "From the mid-eighties onwards British Intelligence Agencies effectively controlled all Loyalist paramilitary activity through the use of agents and informers. This included the murders of Pat Finucane, Rosemary Nelson and many other Nationalists and Republicans. "An RUC Chief Superintendent who investigated the bombing of Donnelly’s Bar, Silverbridge in south Armagh in 1975 told the Pat Finucane Centre that he believed this was carried out by Loyalists from the Portadown area and included 1 RUC Reservist and 2 members of the UDR. He also claimed that members of the RUC and UDR were involved in other attacks such as the Dublin/Monaghan bombings, Kay’s Tavern in Dundalk, the murder of 2 GAA supporters at Tullyvallen, the Reavey brothers and Seamus Ludlow. Further investigations revealed the possibility that the same group were involved in many more attacks on Nationalists and Republicans in this area. "In a sworn affidavit an RUC Sergeant John Weir alleged that a farmhouse owned by an RUC reservist was used as a base to mount bomb attacks in Newry/Armagh and cross-border areas resulting in the murder of at least 87 people and hundreds injured. The group responsible for these attacks was comprised of members of UVF in Portadown, the 8th and 11th Battalions of the UDR and members of the RUC Special Patrol Group and British Intelligence agencies. "No member of the Special Branch or British military Intelligence has ever been charged and convicted for these crimes. The members of the RUC Special Branch transferred en-bloc and remain today in control of the PSNI. "Sinn Fein has organised a march and rally to Belfast City Hall at 3.00pm on 10th August. We urge people to support the demand from the families of the victims of collusion that the truth be told." Please visit our other Justice
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Ludlow family supports the campaign by the Rooney and Watters families of
Dundalk for an inquiry into the murderous Dundalk Bombing of 19 December 1975
which resulted in the sectarian murder of Jack Rooney and Hugh Watters. Further
information can be accessed at their campaign
website.
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