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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.
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
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution points are sites of ‘orchestrated killing and dehumanisation’ that must be shut down, MSF says in new report
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER
