Time for Truth National Day of Action
The families of the Time for Truth Campaign mobilized for a National Day of Action against Britain’s amnesty proposals.
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Did William Craig Fake His Own Assassination Attempt?
Who tried to assassinate William Craig in October 1972?
Internment Files Released for 50th Anniversary
New Evidence: Operation Demetrius and Internment August 9th sees the 50th anniversary of the launch of Operation Demetrius, the British Army operation of mass arrest and internment without trial of Irish Catholics suspected by the British authorities of being involved in the Irish Republican Army. Most were not. If ever proof was needed that the …
Podcast 8: Gerry Fitt – Snake in the Grass?
In this Paper Trail Pro Podcast, Ciarán MacAirt discovers some of Westminster’s dirty secrets and asks was Gerry Fitt a Snake in the Grass?
New Evidence: British Army Killed Protestant Civilian and Blamed It on IRA
New evidence that a soldier of the King’s Regiment killed unarmed Protestant civilian, Thomas Mills, but then blamed it on the IRA.
EXECUTION: Three Scottish Soldiers
The British military files brutally exclaim EXECUTION. Today is the 50th anniversary of the execution of three Scottish soldiers on a lonely brae overlooking the city of Belfast. Their names were John McCaig (17), Joseph McCaig (18) and Dougald McCaughey (23). The teenagers were brothers. All were friends and Fusiliers in the 1st Battalion Royal …
McGurk’s Bar Families versus Office of Police Ombudsman
The families of those killed and injured in McGurk’s Bar have been forced to begin legal proceedings against the Office of the Police Ombudsman Northern Ireland (OPONI). The Office of the Police Ombudsman is supposed to provide an “independent, impartial investigation of complaints about the police in Northern Ireland” (source OPONI website). That includes complaints …
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40 Years: The Start of the Second Hunger Strike
March 1st 2021 is the 40th anniversary of the start of the second hunger strike. It began when Bobby Sands, the Officer Commanding Irish Republican Army prisoners in the Maze Prison, refused food. At the start of the second hunger strike, Republican prisoners called off the Blanket Protest which began in 1976. This was reported …
Britain’s Failure To Proscribe Loyalist Extremist Groups
Britain’s failure to proscribe Loyalist extremist groups will feature in legacy court cases for years to come. Britain, of course, also stands accused of arming and funding Loyalist extremist groups during the conflict, but its failure to proscribe these from the start will be tested by litigation too. The British state’s defence that it was …
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New Lodge Six: New Evidence With Attorney General
Paper Trail Chairperson Niall Ó Murchú writes on the news of the new inquest for the New Lodge Six and their families. We were very pleased for the families when we learned of the news yesterday that the Attorney General for the North of Ireland has ordered a new inquest into the deaths of the …
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