UK Defence Secretary announced end to investigations of army abuses in Northern Ireland
46AM [Updated: Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:46AM ]/ Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the “troubles” in Northern Ireland. In August 1969 British troops were deployed to Belfast and Derry to suppress the nationalist community. This military intervention intensified Northern Ireland’s ethno-sectarian and political conflict and created the conditions for thirty years of Civil War. The new Tory government decided to mark the 50th anniversary by declaring that army veterans who had served in Northern Ireland should not be ...
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