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Thread #29685   Message #382412
Posted By: Grab
25-Jan-01 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: Hungerstrike commemerations...
Subject: RE: Hungerstrike commemerations...
Nearly there - looks like the "pre" tag in Mudcat needs "br" line-breaks defined as well. A preview option might be nice!

Anyway, the columns should read "British Security, Irish Security, Loyalist Paramilitary, Not known, Republican paramilitary, Totals".

Larry, the IRA planted bombs in shops, both in NI and in mainland Britain, to cause maximum injury to civilians - remember Manchester and London? Omagh, more recently in a crowded street of shoppers? Or the Enniskillin bomb which went off at a Rembrance Day ceremony (remembering Irish dead from the 2 world wars) composed mainly of civilians? That's why the number of civilians the IRA killed is so high - they really didn't care about killing civilians. Witnesses to IRA actions who spoke up were kneecapped, killed or tortured to death. Soldiers captured were tortured to death.

I'll back out now - there's nothing I can say that the numbers don't.

Grab.