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Donegall street bomb attack all but airbrushed. It should receive focus like other cases
It claimed the lives of 7 innocents, inc 2 RUC GC Officers, a UDR soldier & 4 civilians is yet another heinous atrocity which has been all but airbrushed from our history. ...
..PIRA terrorists had no concern for who the casualties were. It will claim it had primary targets but the realities are these, none of those whose lives were stolen were legitimate targets for their campaign of ethnic and sectarian motivated hatred.
No justice, truth or ...
..accountability has even been forthcoming in this horrific case. Little focus or concern has ever been granted the families of the innocents slaughtered.
10 days ago we were glad to at least offer 1 of the 7 families (Ernest McAllister) a sense of acknowledgement in a special..
..Service held in St Columb’s Cathedral, L'derry held to mark the worst year of the terrorist campaign (in lost lives) The McAllister family attended.
Across '72 there were almost 500 deaths. We remember all those innocents who died. We take no glee through terrorists also ...
..having died - all life is sacred.
Ernest McAllister & Bernard O’Neill were murdered side by side. 2 Police Officers united in a common cause of defending the community. Their individual religious denominational backgrounds were of no consequence to each other - one being ...
..Protestant - the other RC. How different their value system was from the terrorists who carried out that heinous attack in the middle of a built up area where there was a high likelihood of mass deaths.
SEFF’s thoughts & prayers are with all those innocents impacted by that ...
..day of brutality, which was followed in the coming mths with Bloody Friday, Claudy & so many other cases in-between & beyond, continuing for the best part of 3 decades.
Let all of us show concern for innocents across the community & a willingness to stand together in common ...
..solidarity; there was never justification for the use of criminal violence in the furtherance of or defence of a political objective
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SEFF remembers RUC CSupt Harry Breen, 51, Protestant & Supt Bob Buchanan, 55, Protestant, both married with 2 kids,shot & murdered by PIRA around 16:00, 20/3/89, nr the S Armagh border. They were returning from a security meeting with senior Gardaí in Dundalk.
It's believed ..
..they were set up by former member(s) of An Garda Siochana who tipped off PIRA re their homebound route.
PIRA used a heavy machine gun to fire on their car & it's believed that up to 5 gunmen were involved. The policemen were travelling in an unmarked car hit 25 times. ...
..Bob had been driving. When he noticed the ambush he tried to reverse but the back wheels became stuck in a ditch. Security forces arriving on the scene found the car still in reverse with the driver's foot still depressed on the accelerator & Harry lying by the roadside. ...
SEFF remembers Jillian Johnston, 21, engaged, murdered on the family farm between Belleek & Kesh 32 yrs ago, 18/3/88 when PIRA cruelly took away her life.
Her Mother Annie painfully recalls, "I was on my own at the time - my husband had gone out to visit neighbours - & I heard..
..awful automatic gunfire. I was terrified. I rang my sister in law who lived not far from us & she came up. Just as she came up I heard Jillian’s fiancé calling out - lamenting. I ran out & the minute I saw her I knew Jillian was dead. I lifted up her head & it fell down again..
..I will never forget that night".
The pm revealed there were 27 bullets in Jillian's body. The attack on a defenceless female was amongst the most wicked crimes perpetrated by PIRA over the terrorist campaign.
Jillian was the 2nd youngest of a family of 6. She was engaged to..
SEFF remembers Francis Taggart, 17, youngest of 4, RC storeman, from Beechland Dr in Lisburn who had been playing snooker with his friends & taking a short cut home at 3:00am on 18/3/91, when he was attacked & stabbed by loyalists behind the town's leisure centre.
While a gp..
..of men carried out the murder, a grp of girls had been watching the path. Francis was stabbed 62 times in head, neck & trunk.
Reliable loyalist sources said the UVF was responsible. Rhonda Paisley, then Belfast DUP councillor said "the attack was a vile & horrible waste of..
..a young life. There are those who know who & where the killers are & in not revealing their whereabouts, they are, in fact, permitting them to kill again".
A 23-yr-old from Lisburn was later sentenced to life. He said that he & a others followed Francis from the town. He ...
Wishing all across The SEFF Family & beyond a very HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY!
St Patrick doesn't belong to any one section of the community. He belongs to us. His legacy is not Green beer, nor is he the preserve of those who present a narrow & exclusivist view of 'Irishness.'
St ..
..Patrick predated religious denominational divisions & brought Christianity to wider areas & communities in Ireland. This is his true legacy.
He was born in Britain - not Ireland - to wealthy parents near the end of the 4th century. His father was a Christian deacon, but it's..
..suggested he took on the role because of tax incentives. There's no evidence that he came from a particularly religious family.
At 16, he was taken prisoner by a group of Irish raiders who were attacking his family’s estate. They transported him to Ireland where he spent 6 ..
SEFF remember John Donnelly, 44, RC teacher, murdered by UDA on 17/3/76.
He was stabbed 16 times & his body found in an entry at the back of the Cregagh Inn in the Woodstock Rd area.
The man convicted told police: "all right, I done it. I knifed him a few times when I was ..
told he was a Catholic and would have to be done in".
The judge said: "Mr Donnelly was an innocent & lonely schoolteacher. The only offence Mr Donnelly committed was that he was a Catholic living in Divis Flats & drinking in an E Belfast bar".
The court heard that he was ..
..pointed out to loyalists by a member of staff on St. Patrick's night.
After looking at his driving licence they said he was a "Taig or a Fenian". John was from the Divis Flats area of Belfast.
This was a murder motivated by solely sectarian hatred, John was an educator ..