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New light shed on Northern Ireland ‘dirty war’
Evidence directly implicates the British state in murder, but as the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday approaches, the government is seeking an amnesty for its armed forces, writes JENNY FARRELL
Pictures of the victims of Bloody Sunday are carried through the crowd of thousands at Free Derry Corner after the 25th Anniversary March for Bloody Sunday in 1997
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MARK SEDDON tries to cool off in the countryside to avoid the heatwaves but the greed and incompetence of the privatised water industry is now at boiling point
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IN A report released on January 13, Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland Marie Anderson said there was evidence of “collusive behaviour” by some British officers in the murder of 19 people and the attempted murder of two others over a four-year period by unionist terror groups.
“Operation Greenwich,” led by Anderson, dealt with the activities of the unionist death squads in two counties between 1989 and 1993.
As to the precise nature of the covert collaboration, the report cites the following facts, among others:
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