'All sides in The Troubles and the War of Independence were guilty of disappearing people'

'Forced disappearances’ are often associated with Republican paramilitaries but British forces have also covertly killed, as have all sides in Ireland's War of Independence and Civil War

German industrialist Thomas Niedermayer and his family. In 1973, Niedermayer became one of Ireland's 'disappeared' after the IRA killed him and buried his remains in a shallow grave. 

In Ireland, forced ‘disappearances’ have been associated with Republican paramilitaries. However, the British army also killed and ‘disappeared’ a number of Irish people.

During the 1916 Rising, the British army’s South Staffordshire Regiment killed 17 unarmed civilians during the ‘North King Street Massacre’.