Yes, those dirt poor hard working small farmers would often parade with the reserve to supplement their meagre income (like National Guard), as did thousands of others.
I always assumed that they were singled out for death because they could be hunted down and murdered on their remote farms with complete impunity. It makes more sense that they were killed as a kind of genocide. Perhaps Sweeney your political masters who pulled your strings thought you could stomach your bloody work better if you could tell yourself you were attacking "British Crown Forces"

I imagine that such stubborn farmers would be too proud to beg to be spared when you confronted them in their lonely fields. They would know that it would make no difference anyway.
You must have come across wives and children too on the farm. Did their pleas never reach your cold heart?

If only you or your masters could have seen that in the eyes of decent people, men who can carry out such acts of cold blooded murder to gain more political power, are not fit to hold any office.

And how could the friends and relatives of those butchered be expected to sit in council with the killers?

Another example of your infatuation with killing delaying the Nationalist people achieving their rightful status.

Thank God it is over, but will He forgive?