RepublicanStones

'Death Squads' are defined as pro-govt groups who engage in 'extra-judicial' killings of people they define as enemies of the state. In Northern Ireland there are many people, esp British and their allies, who reject the idea that there are 'death squads' in Northern Ireland, and certainly not like those in Latin America.To refer to 'death squads' in North of Ireland is seen as evidence that the speaker is biased against Britain and Ulster Protestants. The fact is that the Loyalist gangs fit the definition to a tee. the media has called world attention to the use of such state terror in many contemporary Third World countries,in Northern Ireland the perception of collaboration between government and terror groups does not exist because the British govt has a system of direct control, through its military and intelligence services, of the Loyalist paramilitaries who direct the murder against the civilian natives.

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