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BACKGROUND - COLLUSION

Collusion = directing death squads + state murder

+++ Stevens Inquiry confirms "institutionalized collusion" of RUC and British Armee with loyalist death squads +++ British government refuses to publish Stevens Report (April 2003) +++ Cory Report demands public inquiry into four cases (April 2004) +++


ARTICLES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

>>>> 10.09.2009: the controversy about Libya and Britain and the role of state terrorism during the conflict in the North of Ireland
The controversy about weapons allegedly supplied to the IRA by Libya during the conflict leads to the issue of state terrorism as Britains secret weapon.

>>>> 26.05.2009: Polizeiombudsman investigates: PSNI 'never moved' during fatal Coleraine attack

>>>> 23.02.2009: the truth is seeping out - Finucane an indictment of British collusion

Annual Meeting of Relatives for Justice in Belfast, North of Ireland:
>>>> 18.12.2008: Truth costs nothing – coverup costs millions!

Murder of the lawyers Pat Finucane (in 1989) and Rosemary Nelson (in 1999) - evidence points to collusion and the involvement of the British government:
>>>> 16.05.2008: Rosemary Nelson Inquiry: Lawyers were often target of RUC threats
>>>> 01.05.2008: British secretly blocked Finucane inquiry

>>>> 25.01.2008: Mary Nelis: The pain of the past

The European Court of Human Rights gave judgment in favour of the families of eight men, who sued the British Government because of the involvment of members of the (British) security force in systematic targetting of innocent civilians in the North of Ireland:
>>>> 27./28.11.2007: Press Releases on behalf of the families and their laywers <<<<
>>>> 12.08.2007: Belfast: March for Truth - Thousands unite in call for truth
>>>> 02.07.2007: British state closes ranks to protect Finucane killers
>>>> 22.04.2007: UVF spy ring had dossiers on 116 people
On February, 12 eighteen years ago, Pat Finucane was murdered:
The Belfast Telegraph interviews John Finucane, the youngest son of the family of murdered lawyer Pat Finucane. There is much evidence that the British government was directly involved in the murder. The family is still campaning for an independent public inquiry.
>>>> 12.02.2007: John Finucane: Collusion led to my father's death. I owe it to him to find out the truth

Operation Ballast: Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan publishes report on 22. January 2007
"... Senior RUC officers are understood to have been implicated in the biggest-ever policing scandal to hit Northern Ireland. With the Government braced for an uproar over how a state agency allowed a terrorist unit to kill Catholics and Protestants, files have been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions ... (PA, 21. Jan 2007)
>>>> 22.01.2007: Public Statement of the Police Ombudsman
>>>> 21.01.2007: Police was running UVF gang
>>>> 19.01.2007: The victims - Over ten years left nineteen people dead - Police gave licence to kill
>>>> 19.01.2007: Marc Thompson (Relatives for Justice): Don't stop on the bottom rung of collusion ladder

17 years ago the lawyer Pat Finucane was murdered:
>>>> 08.03.2006: Irish Parliament Dáil demands inquiry for Finucane
>>>> 15.02.2006 Establishment be warned – the truth will out

>>>> 03.03.2006: Comparable collusion in South Africa and Tyrone
>>>> 02.03.2006: Gerry Adams backs father of UVF victim
>>>> 03.12.2005 Come forward, state offenders are urged by victims’ group
British Government announces Inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane - but not without a change to legislation beforehand:
>>>> 24.09.2004 Finucane family skeptical about planned inquiry
>>>> 23.09.2004 Statement from the Finucane family in response to today's statement by Paul Murphy
>>>> 23.09.2004 British Secretary of State Paul Murphy on the establishment of an Inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane

>>>> 16.09.2004 Amnesty International: Public inquiry must be held into Finucane killing
>>>> 12.08.2004 15 years fighting for the truth - Geraldine Finucane delivers the PJ McGrory Memorial Lecture
>>>> 11.06.2004 British cabinet linked to Finucane murder

Report of the Canadian judge Cory published:
>>>> 04.04.2004 Justice for the Finucanes
>>>> 02.04.2004 RUC trained loyalist assassins
>>>> 02.04.2004 Focus on victims of a 30-year dirty war
>>>> 01.04.2004 British government announce three public inquiries

Collusion - the truth has to be told about state sponsored murder:
>>>> 06.02.2004 Sinn Féin Supports Families In Collusion Campaign
>>>> 04.02.2004 Canadian judge Cory hailed in U.K. for defying Blair

Police ombudsman's report on the murder of Sean Brown in 1997:
>>>> 25.01.2004 Who is going to police the secret armies in the North?
>>>> 20.01.2004 RUC made no effort to find loyalist murderers
>>>> 18.01.2004 He was just another catholic
The Reports of Cory and Barron:
>>>> 19.12.2003 Amnesty International: Publish Cory reports now, human rights groups urge government
>>>> 19.12.2003 CORY REPORT CHARADE
>>>> 14.12.2003 Barron fails by not giving definitive answers on collusion
>>>> 14.12.2003 Analysis: Cosgrave owes us an explanation
>>>> 12.12.2003 Barron report - Govt opposes public inquiry on bombings
>>>> 11.12.2003 Barron Report - Conclusions
Stevens inquiry on collusion between British security forces and pro-british death squads:
>>>> 18.04.2003 Nelson's Legacy
>>>> 18.04.2003 Stevens inquiry - Much ado about nothing
>>>> 17.04.2003 Summary of Stevens 3 report on Collusion
>>>> 14.04.2003 Collusion: Comment on Nelson death
>>>> 27.02.2003 British collusion Brigadier posted to the Gulf
>>>> 23.02.2003 Sunday Herald: 'UDA collusion' masterspy in top Iraq role

>>>> 23.02.2003 Irish Times on Collusion: Teens' brutal murders are sad story with a twist

>>>> 14.02.2003 FINUCANE MOD FILES WITHHELD - 'Colonel J' file goes to DPP
>>>> 14.02.2003 A web of British collusion that rings Pat Finucane’s murder

June 19 / June 23, 2002: "A LICENCE TO MURDER"
a documentary on collusion of British Army and RUC with loyalist killers in the North of Ireland by BBC Panorama.
>>>> Transcripts of the documentary available
on the website of the Pat Finucane Centre


"The RUC's attitude is incredible. There's no attempt to keep law and order. That is the story of what is going on in Northern Ireland at the moment, not what happened more than 10 years ago."
(a Stevens detective in 2000)