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Kingsmill Massacre: The Secret British Army Files

Massacre at Kingsmill: The Secret British Army Files The Kingsmill Massacre was one of the most vicious, nakedly sectarian attacks of the conflict. A man waving a red light stopped a work van on a cold night and lonely Kingsmill road outside Whitecross, County Armagh. Armed men with blackened faces, wearing camo-gear, surrounded it. They […]
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Michael Leonard: Attorney General Orders New Inquest

Attorney General Orders New Inquest into the RUC Murder of Donegal Civilian, Michael Leonard In a landmark decision, the Attorney General for Northern Ireland has ordered a new inquest into the police murder of Donegal civilian, Michael Leonard in 1973. The Attorney General’s decision was given to Michael’s family on the day before Britain’s Legacy […]
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Michael Leonard Murder 1973

British Authorities Denied and Delayed in Murder of Civilian

The family of Donegal civilian, Michael Leonard, who was shot and killed by a Royal Ulster Constabulary patrol in 1973, held an hour-long meeting with officials from the Irish Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs (Omagh, Wednesday 1st February 2023).
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Help Paper Trail and the campaign group research the secret files around the deployment of CR Gas and the Burning of Long Kesh on 15th October 1974
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CR Gas and the Burning of Long Kesh

Prison Protests: International Committee of the Red Cross

Help Paper Trail and the campaign group research the secret files around the deployment of CR Gas and the Burning of Long Kesh on 15th October 1974
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Attorney General Orders New Inquest into the Murder of Fermanagh Civilian, Jim Murphy

The Office of the Police Ombudsman to Investigate Murder of Civilian, Jim Murphy, although it will not commence until April 2027 due to lack of resources.
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The Killer Kings in West Belfast

The Killer Kings Regiment – Paper Trail Investigates

The Killer King’s Regiment of the British Army. Paper Trail investigates the Killer Kings who left a trail of devastation in their wake when they left West Belfast at the end of the terrible summer of ’72. A few weeks after Stormont collapsed in March 1972, the North of Ireland erupted in a spasm of […]
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CR Gas and the Burning of Long Kesh

Prison Protests: Legacy Archives

Help Paper Trail and the campaign group research the secret files around the deployment of CR Gas and the Burning of Long Kesh on 15th October 1974
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Michael Leonard Murder 1973

Michael Leonard: Army Commander Informed of RUC Murder

The family of Donegal civilian, Michael Leonard, who was shot and killed by a Royal Ulster Constabulary patrol in 1973, held an hour-long meeting with officials from the Irish Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs (Omagh, Wednesday 1st February 2023).
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