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British collusion and Northern deaths

Summary

Senator Daly condemns evidence of British army collusion in killings in Northern Ireland and asks what action the Irish Government will take.

If that was happening in Argentina, Central America or the Far East, they would call them "death squads". The most shocking part of the programme - this needs to be questioned by our Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - is that a memo to the British Prime Minister at the time, Mr. Ted Heath, stated that when the unit was being disbanded, special care should be taken to ensure that the British army replacement squad operated within the law. That suggested the British Prime Minister was well aware that the unit being replaced was acting outside the law.

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Paddy Burke An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

You are way over time.

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What did he do about it? What is our Government doing about asking the current British Prime Minister why no action was taken------

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Paddy Burke An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

I call on Senator Mullins.

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-----when a former British Prime Minister was well aware that there was a British army unit going around the North of Ireland killing people at will, acting like a death squad in Central America.

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