’Informer’ killing in 1920-22 no different than it is now

Re the bodies of people shot as ‘informers’ and ‘disappeared’ by the IRA in the 1970s during the Northern conflict.

Many areas in the six counties, such as Derry, Belfast, Tyrone and South Armagh, where nationalist resistance to British forces was high, were ‘war zones’.

Informers/agents and British and loyalist death squads were common in the ‘dirty war’ to defeat nationalist resistance. They spared no money to that end.