The state and Northern Ireland’s past
THEY’VE admitted collusion happened in Northern Ireland; they’ve apologised for Bloody-Sunday and the murder of Pat Finucane. But how up-front is the British government really being when it comes to who, how, where and when of the State personnel willingly involved in helping run the 30-year dirty war which claimed untold lives in the conflict?
The Detail’s Chris Moore was the first journalist to produce definitive proof of collusion following the murder of Loughlin Maginn by the UFF in 1989. Twenty-two years on he has spoken to those still trying to uncover the full story of British state involvement in both loyalist and republican killings.
The picture is one of damage limitation and a continued unwillingness on the part of the State here to be fully accountable for its role. In the alleged words of one senior police officer to relatives of a notorious gang of informers who killed at least 20 people: “I am not looking at police officers, I am only interested in terrorism and criminality.”
