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Such techniques also involved many incidences of torture used by the army – something that would visit Derry and the rest of the north of Ireland when Kitson arrived.

The Canary actively invites its readers to question everything they read – so please follow the links we reference, and always search for more information if unsure. But if you believe in the importance of independent, grassroots media in the fight against corporate propaganda, please consider supporting us. Kitson was appointed Deputy Commander in Chief, United Kingdom Land Forces and Inspector General Territorial Army with substantive rank of Lieutenant-General on 17 March 1980, with seniority from 17 August 1979. [30] There were many other victims. Once the shooting began, it went on all night. One witness told historian Ciarán de Baróid that: Murray believes there’s a collective sense of empowerment and a resolve that Unquiet Graves should be another step in the campaign for justice. He believes a number of films have lead to an international response to injustices around the world. Films such as: Kitson was appointed commandant of the Staff College, Camberley on 5 March 1978. [25] He held this position until 18 January 1980. [26]

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The Savile Report of 2010 vindicated the victims and those attending the Civil Rights march on that fateful Sunday in 1972 but neither General Kitson or his elite troops were held accountable. But it starts five thousand miles away, in Kenya, with our Englishman and our Scotsman. Frank Kitson and British counter-insurgency from Kenya to Ireland

There have been further developments and insights into the free rein afforded to British soldiers in Northern Ireland to shoot at human targets. This was clearly exemplified at a meeting in Downing Street in the late 1980’s concerning intelligence and agent handling where Margaret Thatcher is quoted as asking a senior RUC Special Branch (SB) officer, referred to in the de Silva Review as R/15, what more was needed to ‘…combat terrorism effectively…’ In the exchange the SB officer highlighted that agents were operating in a ‘grey’ area and involved in the ‘…commission of terrorist offences…’ and in the absence of a legal framework guidance was required. The answer he got was that this was too difficult and that SB should continue as before. R/15 interpreted this as ‘ carry on with what you are doing but don’t tell us the details’. The agent handling of Nelson by the British Army’s Force Research Unit (FRU) is also described as a modern equivalent of the Military Reaction Force (MRF) to which Baker belonged. The FRU appearing to be somewhat more sophisticated and resourced to it’s predecessor but again modeled on Kitson’s manuals.

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In the 1980s, he was aide-de-camp general to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1985 and served for a time as deputy lord lieutenant of Devon later in the decade. At the time Mr Laverty accused the Army of “murdering” his brother John. “As he lay in the street bleeding to death I was being arrested, just yards away,” he said. “It was two days before I knew he was dead and almost two days before my parents knew that I was not.” Mary Heenan, Eugene Heenan, Clara Reilly (RFJ), Christopher Stanley of KRW Law & Mark Thompson (RFJ) will be in London on Thursday supporting the Heenan family in delivering the legal documents and writ. Accredit RFJ and KRW Law.