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“The British state is literally withholding evidence of mass murder and cover-up from us, evidence that we have found and are forced to fight for.” — McGurk’s Bar Truth and Justice Campaign.
ON DECEMBER 4 1971 a bomb explosion in McGurk’s Bar in north Belfast claimed the lives of 15 innocent people including two children. It was recorded as the country’s worse massacre since the Blitz of WWII.
To the British military, it was just another IRA bomb exploding in the process of being handed over to be planted elsewhere — or as it was called in those days, “an IRA own goal.” That was the narrative pushed out by the British army commanders and the Royal Ulster Constabulary via the media. While that bomb ended many lives, for the survivors and families of the deceased, it was just the beginning.
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