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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
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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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