here from the outset that the u.d.r. was set up to recruit from within the loyalist unionist community. they were almost entirely drawn from within the community. declassified documents from british sources from the prime minister's office from the ministry of defense secretary of state's office make it quite shockingly clear that from the perspective of the british government it was acceptable to recruit so into the regiment who was an octave loyalist paramilitary who was a member of a loyalist paramilitary group. there's no doubt that the creation of the else the defense regiment was influence for the british show me boy the experience in the empire these kinds of local regimens what controls and commanded by british offices and as any intrinsic palls of the chain of command bridge show me were common through all of the counterinsurgency campaigns there was

a real and genuine hype at the instigation of the regiments that it would be truly crossed me to see would be known 6 hereon in character but it became apparent very quickly that that was not going to be the case and the british army was willing to leave with the consequences which was that this would be in many ways a sectarian regiment. many people from the will of this community joined the regiment to get weapons training and to stay the weapons and according to the official documents that we funded the u.d.r. was the largest single source of modern weapons flowing to the loyalist paramilitary groups it was a recipe for disaster. and one of the things we noticed whenever we started to do the research was the large numbers of gongs that were disappearing from both are you see a new d.r. armory and places like. this is like the territorial army reserve volunteer force. we can are to name but

a few. now we have a pictorial of just the devastating effect that one of these. this is a 9 millimeter starting submachine gong stolen from. on the 20th 24th a man 1991 and subsequently used to kill a lot of people and seriously injured numerous older people and the attacks were these are the people that i. was with the charge also shows as is who was used in these columns and here we can see that some of the people who were involved in these in these columns were also members of the r.t.c. on the u.d.r. . and we also see as i say who all was killed on one of those people who was killed and one of the force that acts with us was used was with my own father who was killed and on the farms over a bridge. behind. we do know as a matter of holmes as

a matter of. looking for process terrorists that is the domain of the eye you see they are you see the police was created in the early 1920 s. at the same time as the state of north there was created and it reflected the contested nature of the state it was almost 93 percent drawn community and as a both part time element on a full time element there was a militarized force from the outset it was framed on the colonial model of british police and that's how the very fraught and fractious relationship with the. nationalist community. was a nonviolent civil rights movement korean force in the late 1960 s. it was the reaction of the r.u.c. to the absolutely and the attacks on the 1st civil rights marches by the police that actually energies the movement of. people unless the fuse for the conflict at the time. then in the 1960 s.

and 1969 in particular we had a situation where there was coordinated loyalist attacks protectee on the catholic population of belfast tens of thousands forced to flee their homes the irish army set up refugee camps along the border which put up the refugees flee in the north a mob was striking about these attacks was that the r.u.c. the police actually took part in the attacks on the catholic community and belfast at the time. so instead of preventing them they were active participants in the burning of whole streets in belfast at the time. on the 5th of june 1906 the gang attacked a small rural pope called the rock bar near kiddie county arm out. approaching the pope they shot a local man called mick mcgrath as he left the building. they then detonated

a nail bomb which failed to explode. what was striking about this particular attack was that all those involved were members of the local police force the r.u.c. with some on duty as the attack took place. in summing up and sentencing these police officers the lord chief justice went so far as to claim and i quote that they were trying to rid the land of pestilence but that's the kind of language that nazi shoes but use. a very important landmark for the campaign and and 999 was the fact that we acquired they affidavit of john wayne a former sergeant and they are you say. he had been convicted of the marjorie

a man called william strathairn and he had served 7 years in prison. prepared enough. it became available to us in the spring of $9099.00. the 1st time they realized that the job monaghan bombings was linked to so many other attacks north of the border. into the miami show. the cast of. the margin of john francis all of which took place in the republic. in february on judge baron who was conducting a inquiries into the. mesh with john we are in paris the 2 lawyers. john we are in paris at the same time. and i know. we arranged for the

no consent or to meet with them at that time and. i think that the significance of the meeting with we're we were able to test his offer to be able to test the evidence there. we spent several days with them to put different parts of the jigsaw together. thanks to him and thanks to all their evidence it was because. of course he was central to the killing. of. special. throw a special patrol probe was

a section of the or you see it there would have been. the anti terrorist squad the death put the riots of the store bones. we did not deal with all of them really police 2 to us to the truck to men. who liked that type of auction so it would have attracted officers who would tended to be more militant than the ordinary policeman. those approached by the armstrong in the actual day explain to me god we should take the war to the are your instead of setting dark because i think a lot of people's belief that they are your it was being a lot to operate without much opposition and much endurance they explained to me they had already started this by. gone bomb attack on the rock bar

outside t.d. . the asked me if i would be interested in joining what they were doing. i told them i would need to know more about it o.t.s. of course i would be interested but they did explain to me that the were quite a number of people involved. after the odd her meeting was arranged. lawrence material was there. lawrence explained to me it was on the right he should tell me got a lot of jobs had been gone up until that. such as dublin monaghan bombings. really face. a bridge. bball me on shooting.

that's so civilian courts it's not. us to who can influence. the nature and. so they're given the. structures to break decided to sort of extract. some function so i hope for this to lie in the book. the point is should we actually be charging for it because this is when we charge for things it's because it's been a benefit to the person who is buying it and that's the audiology took over education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit for society in general i wouldn't want to live in

a society without doctors or engineers all saw it as what happened without economists. saying it of being a profit benefit ignoring the public means that we're ignoring that the skill bias we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that skilled biases on the individuals what we turned it into is just now the china institution of higher education become a full version of a real estate scam that is not devices for a functional saudi. this is later. this month.

there's no no don't you know you're not. in a way that all of them ok it. was not a master plan a it will lead to that all day only. it was that it would be. the people. who give the name not. what i do with our d. s. when i last saw him and i do again need the whole. let out a year or so and i think a lot of us all. some

of the our you see man where names were involved over many years and the number of fatal bombings and shootings alongside paramilitaries in the ulster volunteer force they include are you see man william mcarthur the self confessed killer. also r.u.c. reserve constable lawrence mcclure police to be one of the gang's most experienced bomb makers who was convicted of causing an explosion and possession of firearms at the rock bar for which i was ever the only received a suspended dissent. or you see constable in mitchell was also convicted of causing

him explosion of the rock bar and possession of firearms but similarly only received a suspended sentence gary armstrong who were also names escaped in a conviction in the rock bar attack a lower the historical enquiries team a police unit set up to investigate historical murders says he was clearly a principal founder in later book penned by armstrong after his release from prison he clearly details his role in the rock attack in a chapter called. fulfilled potential. between the middle of night in 72 when the guy really started its work until the end of 975 that's less than 3 years the guy had killed 89 people. in one month alone in april 9075 1st person they killed was dorothy trainer

a protestant woman walking home with a catholic husband through portadown. within 3 days they'd killed martin mcveigh who was murdered as he cycled home from work in the same town portadown a couple of weeks later they blew up a little cottage that was being renovated killing 2 brothers and a sister and the sister's unborn baby girl. and by the end of the month they'd also killed a man called owen boyle who had been sitting at his kitchen table looking at photographs of his newborn baby girl so there in just one month in one small geographical area you had 4 separate attacks in which 7 people were killed these attacks were remorseless and they ratcheted up the pressure until the end of 9075 when a completely new development took place. as with previous attacks the modus operandi of the gang was to strike targets. almost simultaneously. in

a white cross country arm on the revie family sat down to watch a popular t.v. show when gunmen entered the family home 24 year old john martin was hit as he sat in his chair while 22 year old brian was shot in the back trying to escape into a nearby bedroom. anthony the youngest brother dived underneath the bed for cover before the gunmen sprayed the bed with bullets. a little while later on he heard them all night through the front door and get them into the car on the east bay now so anybody that i had among the bad and i was here a possum brian who was in the bible as a file these posts on you he was dead. hand them all up into the kits and then on john martin he was lyin in a pearl of blood on a file has piles on it on a new it was all to dab. at around the same time gunmen burst into the home of the old guard found only 17 miles away and barely dog and country done. again the

intention was to wipe out an entire family. as they rushed their way into the house they opened fire and barney wood who was his a number of times his brother joe who attempted to charge the gunman was killed instantly. but i was shot 1st and may are. as fun mayor aren't. they by that time and you. had barrios dad. because. he was in the ring at every were in. but i crawled out into the hallway. and act and body was lay and there. was an intensive care of course and was there for a week. the doctor here marar not mourning the nation as the years should be real hey. if things are banned accordant logic if you shouldn't

be here. because those are a ball of go one step for your heart. for no perjury and the word. the word no they're both. up with but a target 90 percent sure. interpreted me with. as the smoke settled 3 members of the old guard family and 2 review brothers and they dead 17 year old anthony revie died later in hospital. in from the men's killings was swift brutal. the following evening a minibus of textile workers was stopped by members of the ira in king's mills not far from the review home where the killings had taken place the night before. these pictures tell the story of the horror that followed. up to 20 gunman surrounded the minibus it's catholic driver taken to safety the bus it's on board moaned on

mercilessly. policeman who arrived shortly afterwards told of bodies piled on top of one another. the gore and the personal effects give a hint of a conic. when we met joan we're in paris one of the burning questions we had is why he and the others in the gang and not retaliated for the king's will massacre. as for was chilling he told us there was a plan and the plan mostly attack a primary school to kill all the children in the school to kill the teachers we asked him why it didn't go ahead and he tours because the u.v.'s leadership and belfast believed that the plan came from army headquarters came from military intelligence and a been planted that milledge intelligence wanted the situation to spiral out of control and this was too much for the v.f.

and they refused to go ahead even for them it was a step too far. the plot. that was decided on. was to shoot top were a school. in beliefs. just on the outskirts of leaks. so we say sure don't screw during show the procedure of those 2 children teachers yes. yes. they're into. 'd yes i do indeed yes i do indeed. move. if that's hard hop and. i think there is little doubt.

there would have been a shocking retaliation. from the republican side. retaliation from the republican side. it would have eventually. in a fairly short time i should say they told us quite the contrary into. prop. civil war situation i think the contrie was almost already in a civil war situation but if that happened. even the moderates. on both sides were going to have to take sides on the was going to be. there was going to be a serious serious civil war. we had a meeting with the chief constable the most senior police officer and the p.s.i.a.

accompanied by an assistant chief constable at their headquarters. and we asked them. what they intended to you but the fact that a former police sergeant william mcarthur out about it publicly that he was also part of the plan to kill 30 children out of school and their teachers. there was a pause they looked at each other and they told us that nothing of being don't know intention of doing anything. he wasn't to be arrested. to be reinvestigated nothing would happen. and i think at that moment after we left. we talked about it and we realized that where else in europe a former police officer to kill a large number of children and a school former employer would say that he had no plans to reinterview him as a result. of dunning street in london the british prime minister harold wilson was

faced with what he called himself an apocalyptic crisis. the narrative was spinning out of control and civil war could not be. amongst the options he considered were a dried withdraw and self government if the people of the north were on governable he could not go. in an atmosphere of near panic wilson called a council of war at his official country retreat checkers. in the peaceful buckinghamshire countryside. also present was the secretary of state for defense. and the secretary of state for northern ireland greece on the security side the team was headed by so david house the general officer commanding northern aren't. well wilson attempted to control the worsening situation the hawks within british military intelligence hoped for a different outcome. where all out war could be waged on the ira. in the

meantime gang were slaughtering anyone but republican targets. so we asked ourselves why why these people and we drew up 2 lists one was a people who were unlucky enough to be caught up in indiscriminate car bombs and the other this was a people who were targeted or watched chased hunted at their work or at their home and we discovered to our surprise that every single one of those bar one. self starters people were making something of their lives they were ordinary people and then we asked ourselves why why these people. and the ferry we came to was that frank kitson in his classic manual of counterinsurgency operations roads that if you can't catch the fish either by rod or by a net then poison the water and author areas that these ordinary people were targeted to persuade other ordinary people to repudiate the ira

a to withdraw support from the ira course didn't work had the opposite effect violence begets violence if people can't trust the law they would take the law into their own hands it was completely counterproductive as well as illegal and immoral i think the stage we've reached as a longer stand collusion but it meant. illegal cooperation. cooperation between. members of the security forces loyalist paramilitary groups sometimes as happened on of a jewel level and sometimes this happened on a more structural level in the 1980 s. and ninety's. there was no actual crime of collusion in this jurisdiction but clearly it with all of the number of criminal arcs by police officers and or soldiers and has been a phenomenon throughout the troubles and we find collusion in many countries we find governments shoes and pseudo gunning so these deniable 3rd forces in order to

carry out current or insurgency but not to deniable way. i think the rule of loyalist paramilitaries here summer they did what the security forces felt that they couldn't do because and theory they were behind by the rule of law and so they could use deniable 3rd forces to do it for them. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

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