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]

August

  • 18 - 28-year-old Eamonn McDevitt shot dead by the British Army in Strabane.[2]


Notes

  1. ↑ National Archives PREM 16/154, quoted in Irish were lied to about SAS, by Tom Griffin, Daily Ireland, 5 June 2006.
  2. ↑ Eamonn McDevitt: papers 'prove man shot by Army was unarmed', BBC News, 6 February 2014.
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