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BRITAIN’S armed forces have been accused of another cover-up after it emerged that soldiers shot dead a man in Belfast in 1972 whose death was then blamed on the IRA.
Factory foreman Thomas Mills was killed on July 18 that year in the Ballygomartin Road area where he worked.
The unarmed Protestant civilian’s death was pinned on the IRA, but legacy research organisation Paper Trail uncovered a British army logbook which it says shows that he was in fact shot dead by soldiers from the King’s Regiment.
From Barry McGuigan and Carl Frampton to Tyrone McKenna and Lewis Crocker, the city’s fighters carry a complex history into the ring, writes JOHN WIGHT
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE