From: holohan@mark.enet.dec.com (Mark Holohan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: Casement update
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:38:36 GMT
Reply-To: holohan@mark.enet.dec.com (Mark Holohan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <C19GJC.HLp@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, morna@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Morna J Findlay) writes:
|>In article <CC.93Jan22103744@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
|>>In article <1993Jan20.205436.22011@e2big.mko.dec.com> holohan@mark.enet.dec.com (Mark Holohan) writes:
|>>
|>>   The British government revealed during the eighth trial in November 1992
|>>   that there may be a ninth trial arising out of the Casement Park incident
|>>   on March 19, 1988.  The Casement Park incident arose after two British
|>>   Army corporals drove into a funeral cortege in 1988.  The soldiers were
|>>   removed from their car after on of them fired shots.  They were then taken
|>>   away to Casement Park where they were shot by the IRA.
|>>
|>>Genuine question: *were* they shot by the IRA?  The media here has always
|>>given the impression that the two men were ripped apart limb from limb by an
|>>angry crowd, rather than shot.
|>
|>
|>The whole incidient is on film. The soldiers ( not in uniform) did
|>not "drive into" the cortege. They drove towards it, tried to reverse
|>away, were pulled from their cars, stripped and beaten and then shot.
|>As I remember, they were shot only yards from the car, not taken away.

   March 16, 1988 - Loyalist gunman launches a gun and grenade attack on
   the mourners at the funeral of the Gibralter Three.  Three people
   were killed and over thirty injured.

   March 19, 1988 - Unarmed mourners at the funeral of Caoimhin
   Mac Bradaigh attempted to defend themselves against another armed
   intrusion.  As the funeral cortege made its way to Milltown, a
   speeding car drove into the funeral.  It was surrounded by frightened
   unarmed mourners.  The occupants of the car produced guns (I've a
   photo of one of the undercover British soldiers drawing his weapon
   to shoot on the unarmed crowd).  In view of what had happened three
   days previously, the crowd defended themselves during which a shot
   was fired.  The men were eventually disarmed by the crowd.  They
   were later taken from the crowd and eventually shot by the IRA.

|>
|>It may be the case that IRA members - as opposed to "the IRA" -
|>were the ones who shot them - as they are more likely to carry guns
|>than ordinary mourners. It is not known whether those people who beat
|>them up were all IRA members.
|>
|>The incident, as I have seen it on TV anyway, looked rather like that
|>awful one where the truck driver in Los Angeles was attacked by a mob.

   The incident, as I have seen it on TV (U.S. television) looked rather
   like a reenactment of the March 16 attack, only this time the 
   attackers were stopped.  There's no comparison to the Reginald Denny
   attack.  Reginald Denny was not a soldier, intruding on a funeral
   procession, drawing a weapon on the crowd, three days after a
   similiar intrusion that left 3 innocent people dead.

|>
|>
|>I do not remember seeing the soldiers fire shots. I think one of them
|>definately pulled a gun though - anyone remember?

   He did, and I have a photo of him drawing his gun on the crowd.
   
                                 Mark

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