"Civil rights" include neither invading a foreign sovereign territory nor bombing civilians. They do include freedom of religion and rights against discrimination. The two are not the same.

Sovereign states make war on other sovereign states, and pursuant to declared war civilians get bombed - and history written by the winner judges.

When I say "the terrorists won" I mean that they forced the UK government to recognise them and to concede power sharing with them. As I understand it from some who were there, the military view was that internment was working and that there were decreasing numbers of terrorists at liberty and active, but that view did not prevail in government circles. That does nothing to rehabilitate the terrorist murderers, and frankly, I would not believe McGuinness if he said "the sky is blue".

This is not to concede that I will agree with Teribus or Keith A on any other topic, nor indeed that I agree with all that they say here.