Death of a Butcher
In executing a UVF leader Lennie Murphy, the `Master Butcher', on
Tuesday evening, the IRA has eliminated a sadistic killer who
claimed his last victim, Joseph Donegan, less than one month ago.
It has also reaffirmed its ability to gather intelligence and
operate effectively even in the most hostile areas.
The IRA has also, in claiming the killing, reiterated that it has
no part in random sectarian attacks, but will selectively hunt
down, wherever possible, those who are responsible for, and
actively direct, sectarian onslaughts against the nationalist
community.
The horrific bestiality of the killings which Murphy and his
associates specialise in cannot be dismissed as mere criminal
depravity without recognising the political motivation behind
them.
Their very ferocity and random nature was designed to strike
terror into the hearts of the nationalist people and cow them
into submission.
For that reason, the British involve themselves in, encourage and
tolerate, to different degrees at different times, such loyalist
attacks as part of their `low intensity operations' in attempting
to subdue a risen people.
18 November 1982 An Phoblacht
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