“If we don’t [restore] confidence in the police it’s going to lead to radicalising young people,” he added. This audience knew intimately the fear of those attacks. Almost 400 were gunned down by British forces at the Qissa Khwani Bazaar (the Storytellers market). As I said earlier, these things are often contingent and so you had a peaceful Civil Rights movement and there was an overreaction to that.
This article was originally published in Italian at contropiana.org, translation by author. It's very alive and fresh and dangerous. As troops moved into the Bazaar, British armoured cars drove into the square at high-speed, killing several people.
You can name them. Who is he? It was Dolours Price's younger sister, Marian. On the 9th July 1972, 5 people were shot dead by British Army snipers in the Springhill estate in Belfast, Ireland.
The UK responds with military force and there's escalating battles between the two. So they send back to Belfast and Dolours Price goes back because she's got to finish the job. The villagers were then forced to dig a pit, collect the bodies, and throw them unceremoniously into it”. Whilst many suffered brutality, fourteen in particular were chosen for in-depth interrogation using what became known as the five techniques (hooding, wall-standing, subjection to noise, deprivation of sleep, deprivation of food and drink). I mean, I would hasten to say, it was much worse for the Mau Mau. Prime Minister David Cameron said “He was “Sorry”.
", PATRICK R KEEFE: It wasn't just do to other people, it was also do to themselves.
All the witnesses are dead. They brought these car bombs, these massive car bombs into London, parked the cars in public places, and... You end up with this scenario, which became pretty typical for the IRA where, what they told themselves was: "We're not out to kill people. John Minihan / Evening Standard via Getty Images file. And it's a book about a murder that took place in Northern Ireland. PATRICK R KEEFE: Jean McConville's kids grow up not knowing exactly what happened to her, but having a pretty good idea. So, that guy, my future self will have gushed the intro to be like, "Oh, my God, this book's so good," but you're here now and I have to say, it's a masterpiece. British troops broke into the homes of locals, accused innocent people of being ‘rebels’ and murdered them. CHRIS HAYES: Hello and welcome to "Why is This Happening," with me, your host, Chris Hayes. The kids have always denied this. And in 2010, 2011, rumors start circulating in Northern Ireland that across an ocean at a university in Boston, there's this archive of all these former combatants from the IRA talking about the things they did, and they might be talking about one of the most notorious war crimes of the Troubles, which is the disappearance and killing of Jean McConville. And how do you explain that? 1. 15 August 1998 Omagh bombing What would I do?". At a certain point, she said, "You know, we're setting off all these bombs in Northern Ireland and blowing up our own people in order to get the attention of the British. Help ROAR cultivate the radical imagination. But because it was Ireland, instead of the soldiers facing trail for murder, they were simply allowed to get away with it. However, we must not limit our consternation to the Americans. What changes it to get to bring about what we think of as the Troubles? In both practices of torture and shoot-to-kill, there are strong indications that the security forces — the Army and the police — acted in concert. They go on a peace march from Belfast to Derry and it's amazing how consciously it's modeled on the American Civil Rights movement. Patreon offers a user-friendly alternative, allowing readers to pledge a monthly contribution and set their own amount — from each according to their ability! And this was happening one night and what the kids remember is that they hear this moaning outside the door and Jean goes to the door and her kids actually say, "Don't get involved. CHRIS HAYES: That counterpoint of like peak, like just complete armor around her, and then what you found out is it ate away at her. CHRIS HAYES: She's disappeared and the context for that, which is one of the things that I found really moving and remarkable about the book is, it's a book about occupation and terrorism, I think. You should absolutely buy it. And today's conversation is about how those ghosts haunt us.
Nine people were killed (including two British soldiers and one Ulster Defence Association member) while 130 were injured, Three car bombs were detonated in the early morning on Main Street, Claudy, killing 9 civilians, including three children. They start running candidates. CHRIS HAYES: Exactly. I mean, they studied the Selma march and so she would have these fights with her father, where she would say violence is not the way. They would say, "Oh, they did it on purpose because it would be a propaganda win for them to allow a bomb to go off.". She said, "I don't want to do that." I mean, for decades the border was this symbol. Spanning 1845 to 1851, British imperialist policies and practices caused the death of 1 million Irish and the emigration of … CHRIS HAYES: That's part of the thing, like big, brutal concrete architecture, real poor. ( Log Out / Indeed, it is believed that this was directed at policy level by the Chief Constable of the RUC, Kenneth Newman. Caelainn Hogan is an Irish journalist. And in that interview, she talks about how she brought Jean McConville down across the border, turned her over to the local unit of the IRA. Finally, here is a neutral arbiter to come in and take care of things.". Churchill would go on to proclaim that these very same British forces were”gallant and honourable officers”. She analyses how British colonial rule attempted to divide in order to conquer; British officer Frank Kitson, who was stationed in Northern Ireland from 1970-72, developed a strategy using “gangs” to fight independence movements, and described the law as “little more than a propaganda cover for the disposal of unwanted members of the public.”, This exploitation of sectarian violence is disturbingly present in Unquiet Graves. The Catholics generally are sympathetic to the cause of the IRA and independence, the loyalists are sympathetic to the UK.
I would make the argument that if you look at Northern Ireland in the decades prior to the troubles, they were not wrong about the suppression. The British killed at least twenty Palestinian villagers at al-Bassa in September 1938, during an operation in which they were also tortured. And radicalization and the yin-and-yang, push-and-pull sort of cycle that produces both of those things. The book is a masterpiece and the lessons Keefe draws apply to any society anywhere trying to reckon with its past. CHRIS HAYES: I mean, one takeaway — and we're going to get into all of this — one takeaway I have is just like, the landscape of Belfast as described in this book is brutal to contemplate. Those differences feel decisive to them and rooted in this painful history. Part of the. Members of the security forces involved in loyalist attacks were named in the book Lethal Allies, written by Anne Cadwallader, a veteran journalist and caseworker for the Pat Finucance center.
CHRIS HAYES: She was a fairly famous case. The party, which is affiliated with the IRA, is called Sinn Féin. There are still sectarian tensions and politician conflict and occasional outbreaks of violence, but Gerry Adams is now a resolutely mainstream political figure. The film ended with a live reading of Seamus Heaney’s poem The Strand at Lough Beg, delivered by the film’s narrator Stephen Rea, whose cousin was killed in an attack linked to the Glenanne Gang.
Recent victims include Mark Duggan, Ian Tomlinson, and Jean Charles De Menezes, among many others who have died in suspicious circumstances in police custody. We stayed at the Flax Mill in the Ardoyne, North Belfast. In 1885, Manitoba, the massacre of the franco Metis and the hanging of their leader Louis Riel. Today, he is this very well-known politician in Ireland. CHRIS HAYES: And so, now the law is here. PATRICK R KEEFE: At that point, it becomes a story of occupation. ROAR Magazine is a project of the Foundation for Autonomous Media. I'm a political person.". Revisiting and monitoring the crimes of Britain. And when I'd been working on this project for four years very late in the game through almost an accident of reporting, I figured out who that person was. And it creates a sort of special status in which that part of Northern Ireland is not part of the Republic of Ireland, but it has some sort of self-autonomy. I think partly because I live in the cluster that is our news cycle here in the United States of America and I just think, "Well, wow, there's something else that's even more screwed up than American politics at the moment." Two were teenagers on their way to a disco. In 1759-1800, brutal military occupation; 9. Even as British politicians were publicly claiming that the use of the contentious five techniques had stopped by 1978, the RUC were still practicing such brutality in interrogation centers. Knighted by the Queen in 1978 whilst his police officers were torturing suspects, Sir Kenneth became head of the London Metropolitan Police in 1982 shortly after the Brixton riots, overseeing its militarization including the introduction of the infamous Territorial Support Group. CHRIS HAYES: I used to carpool with his daughter Orla. The Cowan Plan advocated the use of force and sometimes death against Kenyan POWs who refused to work. But the interesting thing, is that dating right back to pretty early on, Adams would deny that he had ever been in the IRA. [vii] Royal Air Force ‘Air Power Review’, 2008, Accessed on 12/06/2016 at: http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/BC18F893_1143_EC82_2E16AC19F19FE2D2.pdf, [viii] Wrigley, ‘Winston Churchill: A biographical companion], pg.67, View crimesofbritain’s profile on Instagram, View UCdvpE9Ob5VxYXw4k9TIWEDg’s profile on YouTube, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23683637, https://francisyounghusband.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/journal-entry-1-british-expedition-to-tibet/, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/11/freedomofinformation.politics, http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/nov/25/relatives-lose-fight-for-inquiry-into-1948-batang-kali-massacre, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1523502/MoD-refusing-to-release-file-on-massacre-of-Kenyans.html, Evil Britannia: Great Britain’s record of bloodshed, imperialism, genocide (PHOTOS) | Talesfromthelou. The children then as adults made noise in a way that was quite brave. They’re stopped at a checkpoint and executed. We never compromise. Exactly, of a different sort. And this is sort of where I come down on Gerry Adams. Weir told the groups he believed that intelligence officers had wanted the Troubles to spiral into a full civil war, forcing moderates to take sides so the British military could crush the nationalist movement. The youngest said that when she visited England people knew about IRA attacks but nothing about British collusion. Like where does this end up, and what does it mean for the present situation in Northern Ireland? CHRIS HAYES: But if you're reading the book right now, and it is kind of a page-turner. The children remember this being maybe a year or within a year around the time in advance of the mother getting taken away. The problem and this would happen again, and again, and again with the IRA, where they would say, "We're not mass murders." The Brits refused to leave, and it was ordered for them to open fire with machine guns on the unarmed crowd. CHRIS HAYES: To go do the terrible things. PATRICK R KEEFE: A bunch of things. I learned a lot about him.
“If we don’t [restore] confidence in the police it’s going to lead to radicalising young people,” he added. This audience knew intimately the fear of those attacks. Almost 400 were gunned down by British forces at the Qissa Khwani Bazaar (the Storytellers market). As I said earlier, these things are often contingent and so you had a peaceful Civil Rights movement and there was an overreaction to that.
This article was originally published in Italian at contropiana.org, translation by author. It's very alive and fresh and dangerous. As troops moved into the Bazaar, British armoured cars drove into the square at high-speed, killing several people.
You can name them. Who is he? It was Dolours Price's younger sister, Marian. On the 9th July 1972, 5 people were shot dead by British Army snipers in the Springhill estate in Belfast, Ireland.
The UK responds with military force and there's escalating battles between the two. So they send back to Belfast and Dolours Price goes back because she's got to finish the job. The villagers were then forced to dig a pit, collect the bodies, and throw them unceremoniously into it”. Whilst many suffered brutality, fourteen in particular were chosen for in-depth interrogation using what became known as the five techniques (hooding, wall-standing, subjection to noise, deprivation of sleep, deprivation of food and drink). I mean, I would hasten to say, it was much worse for the Mau Mau. Prime Minister David Cameron said “He was “Sorry”.
", PATRICK R KEEFE: It wasn't just do to other people, it was also do to themselves.
All the witnesses are dead. They brought these car bombs, these massive car bombs into London, parked the cars in public places, and... You end up with this scenario, which became pretty typical for the IRA where, what they told themselves was: "We're not out to kill people. John Minihan / Evening Standard via Getty Images file. And it's a book about a murder that took place in Northern Ireland. PATRICK R KEEFE: Jean McConville's kids grow up not knowing exactly what happened to her, but having a pretty good idea. So, that guy, my future self will have gushed the intro to be like, "Oh, my God, this book's so good," but you're here now and I have to say, it's a masterpiece. British troops broke into the homes of locals, accused innocent people of being ‘rebels’ and murdered them. CHRIS HAYES: Hello and welcome to "Why is This Happening," with me, your host, Chris Hayes. The kids have always denied this. And in 2010, 2011, rumors start circulating in Northern Ireland that across an ocean at a university in Boston, there's this archive of all these former combatants from the IRA talking about the things they did, and they might be talking about one of the most notorious war crimes of the Troubles, which is the disappearance and killing of Jean McConville. And how do you explain that? 1. 15 August 1998 Omagh bombing What would I do?". At a certain point, she said, "You know, we're setting off all these bombs in Northern Ireland and blowing up our own people in order to get the attention of the British. Help ROAR cultivate the radical imagination. But because it was Ireland, instead of the soldiers facing trail for murder, they were simply allowed to get away with it. However, we must not limit our consternation to the Americans. What changes it to get to bring about what we think of as the Troubles? In both practices of torture and shoot-to-kill, there are strong indications that the security forces — the Army and the police — acted in concert. They go on a peace march from Belfast to Derry and it's amazing how consciously it's modeled on the American Civil Rights movement. Patreon offers a user-friendly alternative, allowing readers to pledge a monthly contribution and set their own amount — from each according to their ability! And this was happening one night and what the kids remember is that they hear this moaning outside the door and Jean goes to the door and her kids actually say, "Don't get involved. CHRIS HAYES: That counterpoint of like peak, like just complete armor around her, and then what you found out is it ate away at her. CHRIS HAYES: She's disappeared and the context for that, which is one of the things that I found really moving and remarkable about the book is, it's a book about occupation and terrorism, I think. You should absolutely buy it. And today's conversation is about how those ghosts haunt us.
Nine people were killed (including two British soldiers and one Ulster Defence Association member) while 130 were injured, Three car bombs were detonated in the early morning on Main Street, Claudy, killing 9 civilians, including three children. They start running candidates. CHRIS HAYES: Exactly. I mean, they studied the Selma march and so she would have these fights with her father, where she would say violence is not the way. They would say, "Oh, they did it on purpose because it would be a propaganda win for them to allow a bomb to go off.". She said, "I don't want to do that." I mean, for decades the border was this symbol. Spanning 1845 to 1851, British imperialist policies and practices caused the death of 1 million Irish and the emigration of … CHRIS HAYES: That's part of the thing, like big, brutal concrete architecture, real poor. ( Log Out / Indeed, it is believed that this was directed at policy level by the Chief Constable of the RUC, Kenneth Newman. Caelainn Hogan is an Irish journalist. And in that interview, she talks about how she brought Jean McConville down across the border, turned her over to the local unit of the IRA. Finally, here is a neutral arbiter to come in and take care of things.". Churchill would go on to proclaim that these very same British forces were”gallant and honourable officers”. She analyses how British colonial rule attempted to divide in order to conquer; British officer Frank Kitson, who was stationed in Northern Ireland from 1970-72, developed a strategy using “gangs” to fight independence movements, and described the law as “little more than a propaganda cover for the disposal of unwanted members of the public.”, This exploitation of sectarian violence is disturbingly present in Unquiet Graves. The Catholics generally are sympathetic to the cause of the IRA and independence, the loyalists are sympathetic to the UK.
I would make the argument that if you look at Northern Ireland in the decades prior to the troubles, they were not wrong about the suppression. The British killed at least twenty Palestinian villagers at al-Bassa in September 1938, during an operation in which they were also tortured. And radicalization and the yin-and-yang, push-and-pull sort of cycle that produces both of those things. The book is a masterpiece and the lessons Keefe draws apply to any society anywhere trying to reckon with its past. CHRIS HAYES: I mean, one takeaway — and we're going to get into all of this — one takeaway I have is just like, the landscape of Belfast as described in this book is brutal to contemplate. Those differences feel decisive to them and rooted in this painful history. Part of the. Members of the security forces involved in loyalist attacks were named in the book Lethal Allies, written by Anne Cadwallader, a veteran journalist and caseworker for the Pat Finucance center.
CHRIS HAYES: She was a fairly famous case. The party, which is affiliated with the IRA, is called Sinn Féin. There are still sectarian tensions and politician conflict and occasional outbreaks of violence, but Gerry Adams is now a resolutely mainstream political figure. The film ended with a live reading of Seamus Heaney’s poem The Strand at Lough Beg, delivered by the film’s narrator Stephen Rea, whose cousin was killed in an attack linked to the Glenanne Gang.
Recent victims include Mark Duggan, Ian Tomlinson, and Jean Charles De Menezes, among many others who have died in suspicious circumstances in police custody. We stayed at the Flax Mill in the Ardoyne, North Belfast. In 1885, Manitoba, the massacre of the franco Metis and the hanging of their leader Louis Riel. Today, he is this very well-known politician in Ireland. CHRIS HAYES: And so, now the law is here. PATRICK R KEEFE: At that point, it becomes a story of occupation. ROAR Magazine is a project of the Foundation for Autonomous Media. I'm a political person.". Revisiting and monitoring the crimes of Britain. And when I'd been working on this project for four years very late in the game through almost an accident of reporting, I figured out who that person was. And it creates a sort of special status in which that part of Northern Ireland is not part of the Republic of Ireland, but it has some sort of self-autonomy. I think partly because I live in the cluster that is our news cycle here in the United States of America and I just think, "Well, wow, there's something else that's even more screwed up than American politics at the moment." Two were teenagers on their way to a disco. In 1759-1800, brutal military occupation; 9. Even as British politicians were publicly claiming that the use of the contentious five techniques had stopped by 1978, the RUC were still practicing such brutality in interrogation centers. Knighted by the Queen in 1978 whilst his police officers were torturing suspects, Sir Kenneth became head of the London Metropolitan Police in 1982 shortly after the Brixton riots, overseeing its militarization including the introduction of the infamous Territorial Support Group. CHRIS HAYES: I used to carpool with his daughter Orla. The Cowan Plan advocated the use of force and sometimes death against Kenyan POWs who refused to work. But the interesting thing, is that dating right back to pretty early on, Adams would deny that he had ever been in the IRA. [vii] Royal Air Force ‘Air Power Review’, 2008, Accessed on 12/06/2016 at: http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/BC18F893_1143_EC82_2E16AC19F19FE2D2.pdf, [viii] Wrigley, ‘Winston Churchill: A biographical companion], pg.67, View crimesofbritain’s profile on Instagram, View UCdvpE9Ob5VxYXw4k9TIWEDg’s profile on YouTube, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23683637, https://francisyounghusband.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/journal-entry-1-british-expedition-to-tibet/, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/11/freedomofinformation.politics, http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/nov/25/relatives-lose-fight-for-inquiry-into-1948-batang-kali-massacre, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1523502/MoD-refusing-to-release-file-on-massacre-of-Kenyans.html, Evil Britannia: Great Britain’s record of bloodshed, imperialism, genocide (PHOTOS) | Talesfromthelou. The children then as adults made noise in a way that was quite brave. They’re stopped at a checkpoint and executed. We never compromise. Exactly, of a different sort. And this is sort of where I come down on Gerry Adams. Weir told the groups he believed that intelligence officers had wanted the Troubles to spiral into a full civil war, forcing moderates to take sides so the British military could crush the nationalist movement. The youngest said that when she visited England people knew about IRA attacks but nothing about British collusion. Like where does this end up, and what does it mean for the present situation in Northern Ireland? CHRIS HAYES: But if you're reading the book right now, and it is kind of a page-turner. The children remember this being maybe a year or within a year around the time in advance of the mother getting taken away. The problem and this would happen again, and again, and again with the IRA, where they would say, "We're not mass murders." The Brits refused to leave, and it was ordered for them to open fire with machine guns on the unarmed crowd. CHRIS HAYES: To go do the terrible things. PATRICK R KEEFE: A bunch of things. I learned a lot about him.
“If we don’t [restore] confidence in the police it’s going to lead to radicalising young people,” he added. This audience knew intimately the fear of those attacks. Almost 400 were gunned down by British forces at the Qissa Khwani Bazaar (the Storytellers market). As I said earlier, these things are often contingent and so you had a peaceful Civil Rights movement and there was an overreaction to that.
This article was originally published in Italian at contropiana.org, translation by author. It's very alive and fresh and dangerous. As troops moved into the Bazaar, British armoured cars drove into the square at high-speed, killing several people.
You can name them. Who is he? It was Dolours Price's younger sister, Marian. On the 9th July 1972, 5 people were shot dead by British Army snipers in the Springhill estate in Belfast, Ireland.
The UK responds with military force and there's escalating battles between the two. So they send back to Belfast and Dolours Price goes back because she's got to finish the job. The villagers were then forced to dig a pit, collect the bodies, and throw them unceremoniously into it”. Whilst many suffered brutality, fourteen in particular were chosen for in-depth interrogation using what became known as the five techniques (hooding, wall-standing, subjection to noise, deprivation of sleep, deprivation of food and drink). I mean, I would hasten to say, it was much worse for the Mau Mau. Prime Minister David Cameron said “He was “Sorry”.
", PATRICK R KEEFE: It wasn't just do to other people, it was also do to themselves.
All the witnesses are dead. They brought these car bombs, these massive car bombs into London, parked the cars in public places, and... You end up with this scenario, which became pretty typical for the IRA where, what they told themselves was: "We're not out to kill people. John Minihan / Evening Standard via Getty Images file. And it's a book about a murder that took place in Northern Ireland. PATRICK R KEEFE: Jean McConville's kids grow up not knowing exactly what happened to her, but having a pretty good idea. So, that guy, my future self will have gushed the intro to be like, "Oh, my God, this book's so good," but you're here now and I have to say, it's a masterpiece. British troops broke into the homes of locals, accused innocent people of being ‘rebels’ and murdered them. CHRIS HAYES: Hello and welcome to "Why is This Happening," with me, your host, Chris Hayes. The kids have always denied this. And in 2010, 2011, rumors start circulating in Northern Ireland that across an ocean at a university in Boston, there's this archive of all these former combatants from the IRA talking about the things they did, and they might be talking about one of the most notorious war crimes of the Troubles, which is the disappearance and killing of Jean McConville. And how do you explain that? 1. 15 August 1998 Omagh bombing What would I do?". At a certain point, she said, "You know, we're setting off all these bombs in Northern Ireland and blowing up our own people in order to get the attention of the British. Help ROAR cultivate the radical imagination. But because it was Ireland, instead of the soldiers facing trail for murder, they were simply allowed to get away with it. However, we must not limit our consternation to the Americans. What changes it to get to bring about what we think of as the Troubles? In both practices of torture and shoot-to-kill, there are strong indications that the security forces — the Army and the police — acted in concert. They go on a peace march from Belfast to Derry and it's amazing how consciously it's modeled on the American Civil Rights movement. Patreon offers a user-friendly alternative, allowing readers to pledge a monthly contribution and set their own amount — from each according to their ability! And this was happening one night and what the kids remember is that they hear this moaning outside the door and Jean goes to the door and her kids actually say, "Don't get involved. CHRIS HAYES: That counterpoint of like peak, like just complete armor around her, and then what you found out is it ate away at her. CHRIS HAYES: She's disappeared and the context for that, which is one of the things that I found really moving and remarkable about the book is, it's a book about occupation and terrorism, I think. You should absolutely buy it. And today's conversation is about how those ghosts haunt us.
Nine people were killed (including two British soldiers and one Ulster Defence Association member) while 130 were injured, Three car bombs were detonated in the early morning on Main Street, Claudy, killing 9 civilians, including three children. They start running candidates. CHRIS HAYES: Exactly. I mean, they studied the Selma march and so she would have these fights with her father, where she would say violence is not the way. They would say, "Oh, they did it on purpose because it would be a propaganda win for them to allow a bomb to go off.". She said, "I don't want to do that." I mean, for decades the border was this symbol. Spanning 1845 to 1851, British imperialist policies and practices caused the death of 1 million Irish and the emigration of … CHRIS HAYES: That's part of the thing, like big, brutal concrete architecture, real poor. ( Log Out / Indeed, it is believed that this was directed at policy level by the Chief Constable of the RUC, Kenneth Newman. Caelainn Hogan is an Irish journalist. And in that interview, she talks about how she brought Jean McConville down across the border, turned her over to the local unit of the IRA. Finally, here is a neutral arbiter to come in and take care of things.". Churchill would go on to proclaim that these very same British forces were”gallant and honourable officers”. She analyses how British colonial rule attempted to divide in order to conquer; British officer Frank Kitson, who was stationed in Northern Ireland from 1970-72, developed a strategy using “gangs” to fight independence movements, and described the law as “little more than a propaganda cover for the disposal of unwanted members of the public.”, This exploitation of sectarian violence is disturbingly present in Unquiet Graves. The Catholics generally are sympathetic to the cause of the IRA and independence, the loyalists are sympathetic to the UK.
I would make the argument that if you look at Northern Ireland in the decades prior to the troubles, they were not wrong about the suppression. The British killed at least twenty Palestinian villagers at al-Bassa in September 1938, during an operation in which they were also tortured. And radicalization and the yin-and-yang, push-and-pull sort of cycle that produces both of those things. The book is a masterpiece and the lessons Keefe draws apply to any society anywhere trying to reckon with its past. CHRIS HAYES: I mean, one takeaway — and we're going to get into all of this — one takeaway I have is just like, the landscape of Belfast as described in this book is brutal to contemplate. Those differences feel decisive to them and rooted in this painful history. Part of the. Members of the security forces involved in loyalist attacks were named in the book Lethal Allies, written by Anne Cadwallader, a veteran journalist and caseworker for the Pat Finucance center.
CHRIS HAYES: She was a fairly famous case. The party, which is affiliated with the IRA, is called Sinn Féin. There are still sectarian tensions and politician conflict and occasional outbreaks of violence, but Gerry Adams is now a resolutely mainstream political figure. The film ended with a live reading of Seamus Heaney’s poem The Strand at Lough Beg, delivered by the film’s narrator Stephen Rea, whose cousin was killed in an attack linked to the Glenanne Gang.
Recent victims include Mark Duggan, Ian Tomlinson, and Jean Charles De Menezes, among many others who have died in suspicious circumstances in police custody. We stayed at the Flax Mill in the Ardoyne, North Belfast. In 1885, Manitoba, the massacre of the franco Metis and the hanging of their leader Louis Riel. Today, he is this very well-known politician in Ireland. CHRIS HAYES: And so, now the law is here. PATRICK R KEEFE: At that point, it becomes a story of occupation. ROAR Magazine is a project of the Foundation for Autonomous Media. I'm a political person.". Revisiting and monitoring the crimes of Britain. And when I'd been working on this project for four years very late in the game through almost an accident of reporting, I figured out who that person was. And it creates a sort of special status in which that part of Northern Ireland is not part of the Republic of Ireland, but it has some sort of self-autonomy. I think partly because I live in the cluster that is our news cycle here in the United States of America and I just think, "Well, wow, there's something else that's even more screwed up than American politics at the moment." Two were teenagers on their way to a disco. In 1759-1800, brutal military occupation; 9. Even as British politicians were publicly claiming that the use of the contentious five techniques had stopped by 1978, the RUC were still practicing such brutality in interrogation centers. Knighted by the Queen in 1978 whilst his police officers were torturing suspects, Sir Kenneth became head of the London Metropolitan Police in 1982 shortly after the Brixton riots, overseeing its militarization including the introduction of the infamous Territorial Support Group. CHRIS HAYES: I used to carpool with his daughter Orla. The Cowan Plan advocated the use of force and sometimes death against Kenyan POWs who refused to work. But the interesting thing, is that dating right back to pretty early on, Adams would deny that he had ever been in the IRA. [vii] Royal Air Force ‘Air Power Review’, 2008, Accessed on 12/06/2016 at: http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/BC18F893_1143_EC82_2E16AC19F19FE2D2.pdf, [viii] Wrigley, ‘Winston Churchill: A biographical companion], pg.67, View crimesofbritain’s profile on Instagram, View UCdvpE9Ob5VxYXw4k9TIWEDg’s profile on YouTube, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23683637, https://francisyounghusband.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/journal-entry-1-british-expedition-to-tibet/, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/11/freedomofinformation.politics, http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/nov/25/relatives-lose-fight-for-inquiry-into-1948-batang-kali-massacre, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1523502/MoD-refusing-to-release-file-on-massacre-of-Kenyans.html, Evil Britannia: Great Britain’s record of bloodshed, imperialism, genocide (PHOTOS) | Talesfromthelou. The children then as adults made noise in a way that was quite brave. They’re stopped at a checkpoint and executed. We never compromise. Exactly, of a different sort. And this is sort of where I come down on Gerry Adams. Weir told the groups he believed that intelligence officers had wanted the Troubles to spiral into a full civil war, forcing moderates to take sides so the British military could crush the nationalist movement. The youngest said that when she visited England people knew about IRA attacks but nothing about British collusion. Like where does this end up, and what does it mean for the present situation in Northern Ireland? CHRIS HAYES: But if you're reading the book right now, and it is kind of a page-turner. The children remember this being maybe a year or within a year around the time in advance of the mother getting taken away. The problem and this would happen again, and again, and again with the IRA, where they would say, "We're not mass murders." The Brits refused to leave, and it was ordered for them to open fire with machine guns on the unarmed crowd. CHRIS HAYES: To go do the terrible things. PATRICK R KEEFE: A bunch of things. I learned a lot about him.
I would urge you strongly to read this book. Right? The following day 200,000 marched against these demands, and this is when the British Army under Churchill’s orders turned their guns on the people. PATRICK R KEEFE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. All editors and board members are volunteers.
I mean, it's on TV at the time. They refused clothes, any clothes at all, and they're naked under blankets because they're like, "We're soldiers.
“If we don’t [restore] confidence in the police it’s going to lead to radicalising young people,” he added. This audience knew intimately the fear of those attacks. Almost 400 were gunned down by British forces at the Qissa Khwani Bazaar (the Storytellers market). As I said earlier, these things are often contingent and so you had a peaceful Civil Rights movement and there was an overreaction to that.
This article was originally published in Italian at contropiana.org, translation by author. It's very alive and fresh and dangerous. As troops moved into the Bazaar, British armoured cars drove into the square at high-speed, killing several people.
You can name them. Who is he? It was Dolours Price's younger sister, Marian. On the 9th July 1972, 5 people were shot dead by British Army snipers in the Springhill estate in Belfast, Ireland.
The UK responds with military force and there's escalating battles between the two. So they send back to Belfast and Dolours Price goes back because she's got to finish the job. The villagers were then forced to dig a pit, collect the bodies, and throw them unceremoniously into it”. Whilst many suffered brutality, fourteen in particular were chosen for in-depth interrogation using what became known as the five techniques (hooding, wall-standing, subjection to noise, deprivation of sleep, deprivation of food and drink). I mean, I would hasten to say, it was much worse for the Mau Mau. Prime Minister David Cameron said “He was “Sorry”.
", PATRICK R KEEFE: It wasn't just do to other people, it was also do to themselves.
All the witnesses are dead. They brought these car bombs, these massive car bombs into London, parked the cars in public places, and... You end up with this scenario, which became pretty typical for the IRA where, what they told themselves was: "We're not out to kill people. John Minihan / Evening Standard via Getty Images file. And it's a book about a murder that took place in Northern Ireland. PATRICK R KEEFE: Jean McConville's kids grow up not knowing exactly what happened to her, but having a pretty good idea. So, that guy, my future self will have gushed the intro to be like, "Oh, my God, this book's so good," but you're here now and I have to say, it's a masterpiece. British troops broke into the homes of locals, accused innocent people of being ‘rebels’ and murdered them. CHRIS HAYES: Hello and welcome to "Why is This Happening," with me, your host, Chris Hayes. The kids have always denied this. And in 2010, 2011, rumors start circulating in Northern Ireland that across an ocean at a university in Boston, there's this archive of all these former combatants from the IRA talking about the things they did, and they might be talking about one of the most notorious war crimes of the Troubles, which is the disappearance and killing of Jean McConville. And how do you explain that? 1. 15 August 1998 Omagh bombing What would I do?". At a certain point, she said, "You know, we're setting off all these bombs in Northern Ireland and blowing up our own people in order to get the attention of the British. Help ROAR cultivate the radical imagination. But because it was Ireland, instead of the soldiers facing trail for murder, they were simply allowed to get away with it. However, we must not limit our consternation to the Americans. What changes it to get to bring about what we think of as the Troubles? In both practices of torture and shoot-to-kill, there are strong indications that the security forces — the Army and the police — acted in concert. They go on a peace march from Belfast to Derry and it's amazing how consciously it's modeled on the American Civil Rights movement. Patreon offers a user-friendly alternative, allowing readers to pledge a monthly contribution and set their own amount — from each according to their ability! And this was happening one night and what the kids remember is that they hear this moaning outside the door and Jean goes to the door and her kids actually say, "Don't get involved. CHRIS HAYES: That counterpoint of like peak, like just complete armor around her, and then what you found out is it ate away at her. CHRIS HAYES: She's disappeared and the context for that, which is one of the things that I found really moving and remarkable about the book is, it's a book about occupation and terrorism, I think. You should absolutely buy it. And today's conversation is about how those ghosts haunt us.
Nine people were killed (including two British soldiers and one Ulster Defence Association member) while 130 were injured, Three car bombs were detonated in the early morning on Main Street, Claudy, killing 9 civilians, including three children. They start running candidates. CHRIS HAYES: Exactly. I mean, they studied the Selma march and so she would have these fights with her father, where she would say violence is not the way. They would say, "Oh, they did it on purpose because it would be a propaganda win for them to allow a bomb to go off.". She said, "I don't want to do that." I mean, for decades the border was this symbol. Spanning 1845 to 1851, British imperialist policies and practices caused the death of 1 million Irish and the emigration of … CHRIS HAYES: That's part of the thing, like big, brutal concrete architecture, real poor. ( Log Out / Indeed, it is believed that this was directed at policy level by the Chief Constable of the RUC, Kenneth Newman. Caelainn Hogan is an Irish journalist. And in that interview, she talks about how she brought Jean McConville down across the border, turned her over to the local unit of the IRA. Finally, here is a neutral arbiter to come in and take care of things.". Churchill would go on to proclaim that these very same British forces were”gallant and honourable officers”. She analyses how British colonial rule attempted to divide in order to conquer; British officer Frank Kitson, who was stationed in Northern Ireland from 1970-72, developed a strategy using “gangs” to fight independence movements, and described the law as “little more than a propaganda cover for the disposal of unwanted members of the public.”, This exploitation of sectarian violence is disturbingly present in Unquiet Graves. The Catholics generally are sympathetic to the cause of the IRA and independence, the loyalists are sympathetic to the UK.
I would make the argument that if you look at Northern Ireland in the decades prior to the troubles, they were not wrong about the suppression. The British killed at least twenty Palestinian villagers at al-Bassa in September 1938, during an operation in which they were also tortured. And radicalization and the yin-and-yang, push-and-pull sort of cycle that produces both of those things. The book is a masterpiece and the lessons Keefe draws apply to any society anywhere trying to reckon with its past. CHRIS HAYES: I mean, one takeaway — and we're going to get into all of this — one takeaway I have is just like, the landscape of Belfast as described in this book is brutal to contemplate. Those differences feel decisive to them and rooted in this painful history. Part of the. Members of the security forces involved in loyalist attacks were named in the book Lethal Allies, written by Anne Cadwallader, a veteran journalist and caseworker for the Pat Finucance center.
CHRIS HAYES: She was a fairly famous case. The party, which is affiliated with the IRA, is called Sinn Féin. There are still sectarian tensions and politician conflict and occasional outbreaks of violence, but Gerry Adams is now a resolutely mainstream political figure. The film ended with a live reading of Seamus Heaney’s poem The Strand at Lough Beg, delivered by the film’s narrator Stephen Rea, whose cousin was killed in an attack linked to the Glenanne Gang.
Recent victims include Mark Duggan, Ian Tomlinson, and Jean Charles De Menezes, among many others who have died in suspicious circumstances in police custody. We stayed at the Flax Mill in the Ardoyne, North Belfast. In 1885, Manitoba, the massacre of the franco Metis and the hanging of their leader Louis Riel. Today, he is this very well-known politician in Ireland. CHRIS HAYES: And so, now the law is here. PATRICK R KEEFE: At that point, it becomes a story of occupation. ROAR Magazine is a project of the Foundation for Autonomous Media. I'm a political person.". Revisiting and monitoring the crimes of Britain. And when I'd been working on this project for four years very late in the game through almost an accident of reporting, I figured out who that person was. And it creates a sort of special status in which that part of Northern Ireland is not part of the Republic of Ireland, but it has some sort of self-autonomy. I think partly because I live in the cluster that is our news cycle here in the United States of America and I just think, "Well, wow, there's something else that's even more screwed up than American politics at the moment." Two were teenagers on their way to a disco. In 1759-1800, brutal military occupation; 9. Even as British politicians were publicly claiming that the use of the contentious five techniques had stopped by 1978, the RUC were still practicing such brutality in interrogation centers. Knighted by the Queen in 1978 whilst his police officers were torturing suspects, Sir Kenneth became head of the London Metropolitan Police in 1982 shortly after the Brixton riots, overseeing its militarization including the introduction of the infamous Territorial Support Group. CHRIS HAYES: I used to carpool with his daughter Orla. The Cowan Plan advocated the use of force and sometimes death against Kenyan POWs who refused to work. But the interesting thing, is that dating right back to pretty early on, Adams would deny that he had ever been in the IRA. [vii] Royal Air Force ‘Air Power Review’, 2008, Accessed on 12/06/2016 at: http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/BC18F893_1143_EC82_2E16AC19F19FE2D2.pdf, [viii] Wrigley, ‘Winston Churchill: A biographical companion], pg.67, View crimesofbritain’s profile on Instagram, View UCdvpE9Ob5VxYXw4k9TIWEDg’s profile on YouTube, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23683637, https://francisyounghusband.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/journal-entry-1-british-expedition-to-tibet/, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/11/freedomofinformation.politics, http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/nov/25/relatives-lose-fight-for-inquiry-into-1948-batang-kali-massacre, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1523502/MoD-refusing-to-release-file-on-massacre-of-Kenyans.html, Evil Britannia: Great Britain’s record of bloodshed, imperialism, genocide (PHOTOS) | Talesfromthelou. The children then as adults made noise in a way that was quite brave. They’re stopped at a checkpoint and executed. We never compromise. Exactly, of a different sort. And this is sort of where I come down on Gerry Adams. Weir told the groups he believed that intelligence officers had wanted the Troubles to spiral into a full civil war, forcing moderates to take sides so the British military could crush the nationalist movement. The youngest said that when she visited England people knew about IRA attacks but nothing about British collusion. Like where does this end up, and what does it mean for the present situation in Northern Ireland? CHRIS HAYES: But if you're reading the book right now, and it is kind of a page-turner. The children remember this being maybe a year or within a year around the time in advance of the mother getting taken away. The problem and this would happen again, and again, and again with the IRA, where they would say, "We're not mass murders." The Brits refused to leave, and it was ordered for them to open fire with machine guns on the unarmed crowd. CHRIS HAYES: To go do the terrible things. PATRICK R KEEFE: A bunch of things. I learned a lot about him.
