Republican Paramilitaries have killed 264 Protestant and 22 Catholic members of the RUC according to Sutton's index. Thus, the percentage of Catholic RUC members killed by Republican paramilitaries is 7.7%. The most precise number for catholic members in the RUC I have found is 7.7% (in 1992).

That speaks neither for particular targeting of Catholic RUC members nor for sparing them.

I don't believe the 14, 12, or 20 protestant members in the Gardai though I have not found any reliable information. The Gardai should have roughly 200 Protestants according to the percentage of Protestants in the RoI.

The percentage of Protestants in the RoI has fallen from 10% (after the partition) to 3 % now (CAIN website).

Divis, read 'Lost lives' and you'll find names of protestant farmers murdered in the fields.

In an admirable recent article in the New York Review of Books, Fintan O'Toole described the IRA's campaign of communal violence in Northern Ireland over the past quarter-century. Quite apart from well-publicised bombings in Enniskillen or the Shankhill Road, there was a systematic policy of killing only sons of Protestant farmers in western Ulster, a most effective form of ethnic cleansing. (from here. Another source for IRA killing protestant farmers in their fields is 'Lost Lives'.

Wolfgang