N I 'troubles' compo

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max_tranmere
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Re: N I 'troubles' compo

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I'm not taking sides but relatives of UDA and UFF men are entitled to this too. They killed huge numbers of people. Do you remember when those two children were killed by those IRA bombs in Warrington in 1993 (causing outrage throughout Ireland, and everywhere else - Mary Robinson, the Irish President even attended the children's funeral's). Well, in the weeks following that, the UDA and the UFF went berserk, they killed numerous Sinn Fein/IRA people, and numerous Catholics who weren't even involved in anything to do with the IRA. I think in the later years of The Troubles, the UDA and UFF killed a lot more people than the IRA did. It didn't get as much coverage though, as none of the killings took place in England.

One UFF operation was caught on film and you can watch it on YouTube. Michael Stone, one of their most prolific hitmen, decided to attack an IRA funeral at the Milltown Cemetary in Belfast in 1988. He followed the mourners in, and was laden down with loaded handguns and many hand grenades in his jacket. He then started throwing grenades and shooting people. The WHOLE THING was filmed and can be watched on YouTube. He killed three people, injured over 60 (some of them children). He said in a book he wrote years later that it was payback for the IRA bombing of the Rememberance Day parade at Enniskillen the year before. (Go to YouTube, enter "Michael Stone Milltown" and watch). Michael Stone is still alive, but if the IRA had killed him later, his family would get some compo aswell.
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