Families have received news that former soldiers from Britain's covert Military Reaction Force (MRF) are due in court charged with murder and attempted murders.
🎥 Watch the UTV News Report on the MRF Defendants
Paper Trail works with a number of victims of this death squad and submitted our own evidence to the authorities due to the ongoing failure of PSNI's Operation Everson. The secret files proved that MRF deliberately targeted civilians including teens. The British armed forces including the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) covered up these heinous crimes.
📖 Read Murder and Mayhem - Britain's MRF and Operation Everson
The secret British Army files we discovered in London and fought for via Freedom of Information over many years proved that the MRF murdered and injured many civilians across Belfast in the early 70s. We believe the MRF and its agents murdered many more and it even resulted in the deaths of its own operatives and agents.
📖 Read Secret British MoD Files Record MRF’s Failure to Protect Freds
Our files also included unredacted evidence such as the names of the British Army killers and their accomplices. We compiled this in a report for the families (with killers' names redacted). You can read Shooters: Britain's Military Reaction Force here >>
Only for the families' tireless campaigns for truth and justice over the last 53 years and the great support of their legal teams, some of the MRF are before the courts.
Other MRF killers have escaped justice due to Britain's deliberate failures including Clive Graham Williams who is named in a number of our files.
MRF killer Clive Graham Williams (second left, moustache) meeting with Britain's Princess Anne.
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As well as cold-blooded murder on the streets of Belfast, the actions of other operatives and agents will need properly investigated as illegal activities resulted in the death of many others.
As well as running paramilitary agents within both Republican and Loyalist groups, the British Army deployed their own soldiers to work within proscribed organisations.
Some of these soldiers were involved in many gruesome cut-throat murders across the island of Ireland and included the infamous Romper Gang murders in 1972.
📖 Read British Soldiers, British Agents and the UDA's Romper Rooms
Paper Trail will be releasing further evidence on these murders and related brutal killings soon - including a number that occurred across the border in the Irish Republic.
Whether this particular MRF court case will be able or allowed to ventilate all of the gruesome history of Britain's death squad is moot. Most of us believe that only a full inquiry on all of the MRF's activities will stand any chance of examining the whole operation that helped push us towards outright civil war.
We were told by English investigating officers that MI5 copies every file but the same English police officers then told us years later this was not true and that the British state had destroyed all Military Reaction Force files in 1973.
Paper Trail proved that to be false too.
You can read about the lasting impact of the Military Reaction Force's murders in this article by the daughter of one victim: 50th Anniversary - the Murder of Patrick McVeigh
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