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Post by rott on Dec 6, 2022 17:04:55 GMT 7
40th Anniversary
6th December 1982, Irish Republican terrorists murdered 17 people in the Droppin Well pub massacre.
They haven't gone away.
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Post by rubl on Dec 6, 2022 21:01:34 GMT 7
April 28 1916, North King Street, British troops ordered men out of homes or broke into buildings, shooting and stabbing fifteen people to death, including two teenagers.
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Post by rott on Dec 6, 2022 21:41:54 GMT 7
Don't honestly know too much about that rubes but the soldiers had just been through an insurrection aimed at taking their lives.
Not comparable with premeditated, cold blooded murder.
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Post by rubl on Dec 7, 2022 10:01:20 GMT 7
Maybe, maybe not.
It shows that lots of bloody events happened in Ireland. I'm afraid that our Orange William didn't help much either.
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Post by rott on Dec 7, 2022 16:46:28 GMT 7
No idea what your last comment means.
My reason for posting in the first place was that it was the aniversary of an event that happened in living memory and that I remember clearly. It was not a random event pulled from history to make some spurious point or justify or give balance to a cold-blooded act of planned murder.
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Post by rubl on Dec 7, 2022 20:41:27 GMT 7
No idea what your last comment means. My reason for posting in the first place was that it was the aniversary of an event that happened in living memory and that I remember clearly. It was not a random event pulled from history to make some spurious point or justify or give balance to a cold-blooded act of planned murder. It's not as if one nice Autumn day a few chaps decided "let's blow up some English". There's centuries of history and events which predated the Dropping Well pub massacre. It's a matter of cause and effect. As for balance, there is no balance and never will be. It just has to stop.
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 8, 2022 1:28:56 GMT 7
Many murders on both sides.
RiP all who died and die needless deaths for the benefit of the few.
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Post by Mosha on Feb 17, 2023 12:11:17 GMT 7
April 28 1916, North King Street, British troops ordered men out of homes or broke into buildings, shooting and stabbing fifteen people to death, including two teenagers. Zombie covered the troubles, but I think the Republicans lost sight of what they were fighting for. Gerry Adams was in Boston on another fund raising event, and expected it be a backslapping tour. Instead he kept getting asked the same question. When are you going to sit down and make a deal? They were running out of time. Investigative journalists were closing in on who they were buying their armaments from, and it wouldn't have gone down well at home or USA.
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Post by siampolee on Feb 18, 2023 20:38:04 GMT 7
Not forgotten... Robert Nairac mystery: Even Sunderland captain's IRA murderer called him a 'great soldier' The life and death of Sunderland soldier Robert Nairac has attracted a host of claims and counter claims about both his military career and untimely end. What is not disputed is that Captain Nairac was kidnapped by the IRA after spending the evening of May 14, 1977, undercover at a Republican bar just inside the Northern Irish border. He was then bundled into a vehicle in the pub’s car park just before midnight and taken into the remote Republic of Ireland countryside where he was tortured and eventually killed the following day. While his pistol and traces of his hair and blood were later found to support the events so far, the 28-year-old Grenadier Guardsman’s remains have still to be recovered. Now comes the guesswork. Why was the Sunderland-raised soldier in the pub on his own in the first place? Was he meeting a contact so that he could feed military intelligence back to the British services at the height of the Ulster Troubles? Was he – as the IRA claimed – a member of the feared SAS regiment and therefore a notable scalp in the terrorist organisation’s battle for a united Ireland? Did he also work with Loyalist or Protestant paramilitaries to orchestrate atrocities against Catholics in the supposed name of keeping Ulster part of the UK? Or did he become a convenient scapegoat for the British authorities after his death so that other agents could operate without suspicion? If that is so then was he merely a loose cannon acting outside his limited authority in posing as a native and singing pro-Republican songs just minutes before displaying his boxing prowess as his kidnappers struggled to overpower him? And what of the theory that his remains were quickly fed to a farm's industrial mincer to remove all trace of his body?
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Post by rott on Feb 19, 2023 12:19:56 GMT 7
Possibly those who see such great honour and decency in the Republican freedom fighters (presumably compared to those who seemingly committed atrocities in the supposed name of keeping Ulster British) will prevail upon them to tell all.
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