Killers who never had to go on the run
For nearly 37 years there has been an effective amnesty for members of the RUC and British army who have carried out several hundred killings, mostly of unarmed civilians, and who were involved in colluding with loyalists in killing hundreds more.
Where was the outcry from British conservatives or unionists after the RUC killed the first victims of the Troubles, including Samuel Devenney, Francis McCloskey, John Corry and nine-year-old Patrick Rooney in 1969?
On the contrary, the RUC killers were fully supported and promoted, as were the British army killers of Bloody Sunday. And the SDLP seemed to have no problem with the colluders in the RUC special branch being transferred en masse to the PSNI.
In the South, the Barron reports into the Dublin/Monaghan bombings and the killing of Seamus Ludlow showed there was little effort to apprehend the killers, or those who planned the killings. Similarly for other sinister bombings in Dundalk, Dublin, Belturbet, Castleblaney, etc. The relatives of these victims - more than 50 - were initially ignored and then repeatedly told lies by the authorities here.
Dr Sean Marlow
90 Willow Park Road
Dublin 11
