The minister of defense secretary of States Office make it quite shockingly clear that from the perspective of the British Government it was acceptable to recruit someone into the regiment who was an octave loyalist paramilitary who was a member of 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 east regimens that what controls and commanded by british offices and as any intrinsic pauls in the chain of command bridge show 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 mean the same would be nonsectarian in character but it became apparent very quickly that that was not going to be the case and. Shaunie was in the if with the consequences which was that this would be in many ways a sectarian. Many people from little in this c
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 their illegal activities are cording to the evidence we received were known to their immediate superiors and putting 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 the senior authorities in london on notice of information that should have caused them to further investigations of this collusion in Northern Ireland we found no no indication that they took that obligation seriously. The next big step change came when they start Inquiries Team was set up to. Investigate all the unsolved murders of the conflict which quickly broadened all in the conflict and within that organization the a. G. T. There was a special team set out to investigate claims of collusion aware the sta
World is driven by drug soaked by the curse of those great. Players thinks. We dared to ask. A man that margaret found it impossible to touch the man she witnessed shooting her husband at point blank range was robin jackson. Jackson was a portadown loyalist who became one of the conflicts most prolific killers. He was also an r. U. C. Agent nicknamed the jackal. 5 days before pat campbells murder a man and whose home police had found 64 kilograms of explosives 2 grenades and over 5000 rounds of a sort of ammunition had named jackson as his accomplice. 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. Loyalist paramilitaries harris boyle and Wesley Somervill
Investigators who were to el salvador people whod worked on the south African Truth Commission and others academics lawyers peoples experience and we invited them to ireland and i asked them to look at the evidence to me was whistleblowers to meet with families to meet with p. S. And i was seated on many others and a troll their own conclusions to draw up their own report the International Panel report which is what they did and it was a very valuable experience to have people from outside the jurisdiction come here look at the evidence and come to their own conclusions. 10 years ago from 2004 to 2006 i had 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. There are a significant number. Of agents from within the e. U. See the u. D. R. Who were involved directly in these killings who are in collusion with them. And their activities t
R. U. C. Agent nicknamed the jackal. 5 days before pat campbells murder a man in whose home police had found 64 kilograms of explosives 2 grenades and over 5000 rounds of assorted ammunition had named jackson as his accomplice. However police failed to arrest jackson meanwhile he is of 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. Loyalist 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 recruited 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 the big end of the troub