State Violence and Collusion Timeline 1971

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Events related to state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland in 1971.

April

  • 11 Easter Sunday. According to a 1974 briefing for Prime Minister Harold Wilson, "“Plain-clothes teams, initially joint RUC/army patrols, have operated in Northern Ireland since the IRA bombing campaign in Easter 1971."[1]
  • National Archives PREM 16/154, quoted in Irish were lied to about SAS, by Tom Griffin, Daily Ireland, 5 June 2006.