Sunday, 29 December 2019

Some of IRA's victims mistakenly killed as 'informers', files show

Government list includes some of most notorious cases from the Northern Ireland Troubles

Some of the dozens of victims killed by the IRA for supposedly “informing” during Northern Ireland’s Troubles were not working for the police or security services, according to official documents released in Belfast.

A sample list of alleged informers shot dead by the Provisional IRA between 1978 and the 1994 ceasefire has emerged from government files released to the Northern Ireland public records office on Monday.

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