Wolfgang read the source of your information,as for Fintan O'Toole, I knew sooner of later someone would bring this anti Republican into a post, load of rubbish, there was no campaign of ethnic cleansing. Many border farmers were members of the RUC or UDR and in earlier cases the RIC.Many owned land handed down from their fathers who were planted on it. Any of those who were considered legitimate targets by the movement were shot because they were members of the British Crown Forces, nothing else. Wolfgang I am fully aware you will see my viewpoint as that of a Republican, but it's the truth as seen on the ground. Most Protestant border farmers were part time members of the Crown Forces, as were their fathers before them.