SAS kills three Volunteers
Three young men in the front line of the struggle for a free and
peaceful Ireland paid the ultimate price for their dedication to
their people when they were mown down by an SAS death squad. IRA
volunteers Brian Mullin, and Martin and Gerard Harte died near
their own homes in what was a carefully laid ambush.
The gunfire had hardly ceased in Tyrone on Tuesday when unionist
politicians were crowing over the deaths of the volunteers and
calling for more of the same. From other quarters, including the
SDLP and the Dublin government, polite questions were raised
about the circumstances of the deaths, but there were none of the
moralistic and generalised condemnations of violence which follow
IRA operations.
From the British government itself - the government which ordered
the killings - there was a studied silence. It was a silence
shared by the faceless foreign gunmen it sent into County Tyrone
to remove three more young Irish people whom it considered a
threat to its rule in this country.
Phoblacht, 1 September 1988.
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