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Thread #161737   Message #3846223
Posted By: Teribus
23-Mar-17 - 01:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Martin McGuinness (1950-2017) (Sinn Fein)
Subject: RE: BS: Martin McGuinness (1950-2017) (Sinn Fein)
Yes Shaw many more were maimed and injured - over ten times the number killed - Of those killed 1870-odd were killed by the PIRA, who were also responsible for the vast majority of those maimed and injured. Interesting to note that you did not list the number of those who served in the security forces, police and emergency services who were killed. Yes it was a conflict of three sides:

1: Nationalist Paramilitaries
2: Loyalist Paramilitaries
3: Those trying to protect and safeguard the bulk of the civilian population of Northern Ireland.

Out of your figures for nationalist and loyalist paramilitaries killed not one single one of them gave their lives in any attempt to save the life of a single Irishman - in fact the reverse was more the case - Oh and without any shadow of a doubt Martin McGuinness was one of those responsiblle for giving the orders that resulted in those deaths and injuries.