Nah, a bunch of adrenaline junkies masquerading as hard men making hard decisions decided to put down some uppity paddies who didn’t know their place.
Many of the senior officers had been involved in the bloody vengeful withdrawal from Aden and like there they probably viewed Ireland as foreign, even if they were shooting dead what were essentially their fellow uk residents.
They were trying to provoke the IRA into open battle. Murdering civilians was the bait. It wasn’t an accident same thing happened in ballymurphy only months before. You can get away with a lot if you control the media.
No, it was a “Croppy lie down” operation, go in hard, shoot a few dozen people and frighten the rest of them. Make them shut up for another generation or two. It’s called “Military intelligence.”
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Nah, a bunch of adrenaline junkies masquerading as hard men making hard decisions decided to put down some uppity paddies who didn’t know their place.
Many of the senior officers had been involved in the bloody vengeful withdrawal from Aden and like there they probably viewed Ireland as foreign, even if they were shooting dead what were essentially their fellow uk residents.
They were trying to provoke the IRA into open battle. Murdering civilians was the bait. It wasn’t an accident same thing happened in ballymurphy only months before. You can get away with a lot if you control the media.
No, it was a “Croppy lie down” operation, go in hard, shoot a few dozen people and frighten the rest of them. Make them shut up for another generation or two. It’s called “Military intelligence.”