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Families want justice after Coagh killings
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| Culzie | Date: Saturday, 2014-03-08, 0:12 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Families call for justice 25 years after Coagh IRA killings
March 7 2014
The family of one of three men gunned down by the IRA 25 years ago today in Co Tyrone says his family are still desperate to get answers and justice.
Leslie Dallas, Austin Nelson and Ernie Rankin were mown down by the IRA as they stood outside Dallas’ garage on March 7, 1989 in the village of Coagh, near Cookstown.
A relative of Mr Dallas told the News Letter yesterday: “After 25 years we are still asking ‘where is the justice for us?’ There has been talking and talking for years, but now we need action. Our families have been crippled with the pain from that day.
“Leslie was standing at his garage with two friends, with his wife sitting in the car, when three IRA men pulled up .
“Two of the them got out and emptied the three of them. They all took off in the car, shouting and cheering.”
He is not aware of there ever having been any arrests.
“They knew all the suspects. This gang was operating in the heart of mid-Ulster for years.
“The SAS shot three of them when they came back to Coagh to murder another Protestant in 1991.
“One of the questions we want to ask is how much did the security forces know about the gang’s plans before they shot our loved ones?
“There is probably another half-dozen of the gang still out there. So far as we know they were all from about four miles away from us, from Moortown and Ardboe, with one from Coalisland.
“The on the runs row has brought us to our knees. We want to know if the British Government gave the rest of the gang letters to say they would not be arrested?”
Kenny Donaldson, spokesman for Innocent Victims United, said there has been much media focus on the cases of the three IRA men shot at Coagh.
“This has caused much hurt and trauma to the families of those affected by PIRA terrorism in the Coagh and wider mid-Ulster area,” he said.
UUP Mid Ulster MLA Sandra Overend said relatives of the IRA victims “have had their pain compounded by the recent revelations of letters of comfort to so-called on the runs and the media coverage of frustration expressed by families of three IRA men at the delay into holding a full inquest into their deaths”.
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news....5920659
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| RSAUB | Date: Sunday, 2014-03-16, 11:33 AM | Message # 2 |
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| Ernie Rankin and Austin Nelson were both old men, Ernie Rankin was partially sighted when the gunmen drove away they fired a few shots out of the car into the air. Complete murdering psychopaths. Hopefully most of the gang are now in hell were they belong.
As for the Government and Her Majesty the Queen, I'll not use the words that I think of them at this present moment in time.
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| Culzie | Date: Sunday, 2014-03-16, 8:34 PM | Message # 3 |
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| Maybe some are just trying to put a brave face on it, but I think when the Queen went and laid wreaths for the murderers of her soldiers, and then shook hands with the murderer McGuinness it was a step down for her and a step up for McGuinness and his cronies.
They always seem to have to crawl to the Irish, even using the Irish name for their Prime Minister. Is there a Russian name for their leader. The same with France, Germany etc. If there is, why do our politicians not use these names, and only use the language of the Irish when addressing their leaders.
Its embarrassing to see what once Great Britain has been reduced to. The rulers of 3/4 of the world now reduced to grovelling.
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| RSAUB | Date: Wednesday, 2014-03-19, 8:24 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Very true, as the line of a song goes:'once we had an empire and now we have a slum.'
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