10 years ago from 2004 to 2006 i have the privilege of chairing an independent International Inquiry into potential collusion by British Security forces in paramilitary killings of catholics in Northern Ireland. They certainly were not a few bad apples there are a significant number of British Intelligence agents from within the car you see in the u. D. R. Who were involved directly in these killings who are in collusion with them and their activities there are illegal activities cording to the evidence we received were known to their immediate superiors and hooting a number of chief inspectors and inspectors where we were not able to ascertain if the time is how far up the chain of command this went we do know that senior authorities in london on notice of information that should have caused them to can. Further investigations of this collision in Northern Ireland we found no no indication that they took that obligation seriously. The next big step change came when the historically In
However police failed to arrest jackson meanwhile he is at liberty to murder part campbell. Jackson of being a member of the Ulster Defense regiment then the largest regiment in the british army. He was later involved in the massacre of the Miami Showband in july 975 when 3 band members were killed by members of the clan gang as they attempted to plant a bomb on the musicians boss. List paramilitaries horace boyle and Wesley Somerville were killed instantly as the bomb exploded prematurely. Well the Ulster Defense regiment was the largest regiment in the british army it was geographically recruit it here and the north of ireland and it only served here in the north of ireland it was essentially a counterinsurgency unit that was set up. At the beginning of the troubles. That itself took over from the discredit the specials which was a special police unit that exists that since the 1920 s. And it was clear from the outset that the u. D. R. Was set up to recruit from within the loyalist u
Empire these kinds of locally right regimens what controls and commanded by british offices and as any intrinsic palls in the chain of command bridge me were common through all of the counterinsurgency campaigns there was a real and genuine hype at the instigation of the regiments that it would be truly crossed me to see adam would be nonsectarian in character but it became apparent very quickly that that was not going to be the case and the british army was willing to live with the consequences which was that this would be in many ways a sectarian regiment. Many people from the in this community joined the regiment to get weapons training and to stay the weapons and according to the official documents that we funded the u. D. R. It was the largest Single Source of modern weapons. Going to the loyalist paramilitary groups was a recipe for disaster. And one of the things we noticed whenever we started to do the research was the large numbers of guns that were disappearing from both our
A loyalist paramilitary group. Theres no doubt that the creation of the else the defense regiment was influence for the british show me boy the experience in the empire these kinds of locally right regimens the what controls and commanded by british offices and as any intrinsic palls of the chain of command bridge shomi were common through all of the counterinsurgency campaigns there was a real and genuine hype at the instigation of the regiments that it would be truly crossed me to see adam would be nonsectarian in character but it became apparent very quickly that that was not going to be the case and the british army was willing to live with the consequences which was that this would be in many ways a sectarian regiment. Many people from the Loyalist Community joined the regiment to get weapons training and to state a weapons. According to the official documents that we funded the u. D. R. It was the largest Single Source of modern weapons flowing to the loyalist paramilitary groups
I held myself to it was the action and i started to notice that i could coexist with that while still living a life that went beyond. In dublin the Campaign Group justice for the had for years been demanding a Public Inquiry into the double in amman bombings. It still took 7 years for the Irish Government 6 years after the iras 9094. 00 cease fire to agree to a strict form of inquiry under Justice Henry barr on the inquiry found in his own careful words and despite london refusing to cooperate with the inquiry that the case for collusion was neither fanciful nor absurd. Crucially however for the families bereaved by other glennon murders north of the border daryn published a full appendix listing the ballistic links between other key attacks. After publication of the foreign reports it became obvious that there was still. The response from the state. Is very serious allegations of kanaly where knock on the investigator that there was going to be no response and so we decided that we sh