Little known facts about the conflict in N.I

Thw Wolfe Tones - A Soldier's Return - (Pro-IRA video). Little known facts about the conflict in NI

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[phoenix1916]

Any time the IRA engaged the Loyalist cowards in a gun battle they annihilated them! without their Brit masters they are/were nothing!

[newinsouthwark]

"Our mandate comes from the silence of our guns" (Sinn Fein/IRA). Which is why the IRA killed Dominic McGlinchey - not so much of a mandate if you could only silence some of the guns. But given that Sinn Fein never had majority support in either Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, why on Earth did they have the right to use violence anyway?

[fecktu]

@Mountjoy1689 Where are your facts?

[fecktu]

@Mountjoy1689 The UVF was responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the Troubles, including the McGurks Bar Massacre, the Dublin & Monaghan Bombings, Miami Showband Massacre, Reavey & O'Dowd murders and the Loughlinisland Massacre. All of these attacks were aimed soley at Catholic civilians who had no involvement with Republican Organizations.

[fecktu]

@Mountjoy1689 Between 1968 and 1998, loyalist paramilitaries killed an estimated 864 civilians (most of them Catholic), compared with an estimated 728 civilians (most of them Protestant) killed by the IRA. Experts say loyalist groups have often acted out of religious hatred, while the IRA has more often targeted British security officers—killing more than 1,000 of them—in an effort to further its political goal of ejecting the British from Northern Ireland .

[fecktu]

@Mountjoy1689 The UDA’s October 1993 machine-gun attack on a bar in the Northern Ireland town of Greysteel, which killed eight civilians.

[fecktu]

@Mountjoy1689 A pair of UVF bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, both in the Republic of Ireland, on May 17, 1974, that killed thirty-three civilians.

[fecktu]

@Mountjoy1689 The UVF’s 1971 bombing of a Belfast pub, which killed fifteen people

[fecktu]

@Mountjoy1689 Ok, how about these facts: The UVF’s 1969 bombing of a power station near Belfast. Initially attributed to the IRA, this attack also helped trigger the Troubles.

[Mountjoy1689]

@fecktu The rest of the comments I wouldn't even challenge as they're childish and quite frankly embarrassing.

[Mountjoy1689]

@fecktu The UVF was never ''nearly wiped out''. Read up on the Troubles mate, the UVF were extremely successful against Republicans in the early to mid 90's before the ceasefires.

[Mountjoy1689]

@fecktu Attempting to shift the blame of Bloody Friday on to the British Army? Even the Provo's have admitted that their own operation was flawed, 22 bombs exploding inside 80 minutes overstretched the security forces too much, they scored a spectacular own goal killing 9 people and injuring 130. Poor deflection!!!