| Culzie | Date: Tuesday, 2013-11-05, 7:56 PM | Message # 1 |
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| After seeing his mother dragged away to be murdered.
N.L. Monday 4th November 2013
McConville’s son beaten up by IRA to silence him days after she was ‘disappeared’
Jean McConville’s IRA killers tried to silence her son days after she vanished, it has been revealed.
Michael McConville, who was 11 when his mother was snatched from her west Belfast home in 1972, was abducted, beaten and threatened at gunpoint by young republicans intent on keeping her disappearance quiet.
He said: "They tied me to a chair; were hitting me with sticks. They were putting a gun to my head.
"They said they were going to shoot me."
Mrs McConville, a widowed mother-of-10, was among 17 people abducted, killed and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries during the Troubles.
Even though a former IRA boss claimed Gerry Adams ordered her murder, the Sinn Fein president again insisted in a special television documentary that he had nothing to do with the young mother’s death.
Brendan "Darkie" Hughes, once a close friend of Mr Adams, said: "There’s only one man who gave the order for that woman to be executed. That man is now the head of Sinn Fein."
But, Mr Adams, now a Louth TD, told the documentary makers: "I had no act or part to play in either the abduction, the killing or burial or Jean McConville or indeed any of these other people.
"Brendan is telling lies."
Hughes, who died in 2008, made his claim in an interview with researchers at Boston College seven years earlier. It was given on the condition that nothing would be published until after his death.
Old Bailey bomber Dolours Price, who died earlier this year, also alleged Mr Adams had been her IRA Officer Commanding during the early 1970s and specifically implicated him in the murder of Mrs McConville.
The widow’s remains were recovered at Shelling Beach, Co Louth in August 2003 - more than three decades after she was abducted. Forensic tests revealed she had been badly beaten and shot in the back of the head.
The discovery was made by a member of the public and is part of a live police investigation.
"If I lived for 200 years I still don’t think I could describe how I felt when we got my mother’s body back," said Mr McConville, who wants the killers brought to justice.
"They took my mother from her house. To bring her down to a beach with her hands tied behind her back and to put a gun to the back of her head and shoot her - that’s an execution.
"They knew exactly who they were killing and what she was leaving behind. That was a war crime and the people responsible should be brought to The Hague."
Despite the passage of over 40 years Mr McConville, now aged 51 and a father-of-four, can still vividly recall the day his mother was dragged from her home with wailing children clinging desperately to her limbs.
A gang of up to 20 IRA men and women were involved, including two neighbours who knew the children by name.
His three-hour ordeal at the hands of the IRA’s youth wing was a warning to stay silent.
"I was going to give the names of the ones who were not wearing masks to the police," he said.
"They said they were going to shoot me if I told anything about any member of the IRA. That they would shoot me or shoot a member of the family."
Before her death Jean McConville was held and interrogated for up to six days in Belfast. Separate teams of IRA volunteers were organised to drive her south of the Irish border; kill her and to dig the grave.
Lies that she had been an informer who revealed the location of a gun or had stashed army transmitters were circulated by the IRA murder gang.
Claims that she had helped an injured British soldier were also spread among the staunchly republican community and her orphans were shunned.
Mr McConville said: "The people round Divis flats didn’t want anything to do with us. We were just shunned to the side. Older people and younger people were saying that she had been seen with UDA men on the Shankill Road or had been seen in other places. It was all lies and that went on till about the 80s."
Official records from the time stated that the authorities were aware Jean McConville had been "abducted" and noted that a local priest was unsympathetic and reluctant to help.
Mr McConville said he knew his mother was never coming back when an IRA man called to the family home and handed back her wedding rings and purse.
"Although I was only 11, I knew that my mother was dead. Having seen at first hand the brutality of these people I knew that my mother was killed and that she wouldn’t be coming back," he said.
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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| RSAUB | Date: Friday, 2013-11-22, 9:24 AM | Message # 2 |
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| And political policing continues with Adams not even being interviewed by the police over this, the same way he got a way with covering up his brothers child abuse from the authorities then letting him resume a roll in West Belfast, working alongside young people. Sick scum, who seem to be able to do what they please in what was once a land of decency namely; Ulster.
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| Culzie | Date: Saturday, 2013-11-23, 0:30 AM | Message # 3 |
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Yes sad to see how Ulster has went from how I remember it. I remember my mother telling me that her and my sister stood for the National Anthem in Falls Park when the band played it. So you had gaelic pitches and all the rest of attractions in the park and amidst all that the band played the National Anthem and nobody bothered.
I was a bit doubtful and thinkingl that maybe my mother and sister were 'winding me up' or not clear that bands had played the National Anthem in Falls Park I was just a bit sceptical, but I just happen to read recently that bands did play the NA in Falls Park.
The ira had their Operation Harvest in the late fifties to 1962 [think it was] and they got nowhere. Nobody including the RCs wanted to know them but then the world protest movement started and they were told that they were being kept down and should be a part of this movement...and they did. And so Ulster was plunged into the abyss and still has not got out of it. Curses on all those malcontents who stirred it up and gave us 30 years of torture,murder and mayhem. Especially those 'protestants' who played their part in bringing this about. They are worse than the RCs
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| RSAUB | Date: Saturday, 2013-11-23, 6:10 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Very true, those liberal upstarts on our side who jumped on the bandwagon have to take responsibility for what's happened in our Ulster.
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