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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
I agree with the theme of your post, but I do disagree with some of the statements. There were two sides to this conflict. The PIRA was not the only group to use terrorism or to go after soft unarmed civilian targets. What about the Ulster Volunteer Force? What about the atrocities of the Ulster Freedom Fighters? Especially the Shankill Butchers, where random civilian Irish Catholics were severely beaten and tortured before having their throats slashed.
Are the British Forces heroic for shooting Innocent people in the back on Bloody Sunday? For terrorizing and destroying innocent civilians property during the Falls Curfew? The PIRA did kill hundreds of innocent civilians much like their paramilitary loyalist opponents. Still over 700 British soldiers were killed as well so not all of the PIRA paramilitary actions were solely against protestant civilians. There were atrocities and terrorist tactics used by both sides.
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I didn't put all the names in to my post and I agree with you, none of the above mentioned acted like freedom fighters or hero's or soldiers. Even in this case the soldiers that bought about the slaughter during the bloody sunday event.
I just simplified my post, but I'm well aware of these other groups and actions.
Put simply, I have respect for no one that deliberatley targets civilians to make a political point. In war civilian casualties do happen and its tragic, but a professional soldier doesn't go out of his way to cause that kind of pain and suffering, these people do or did.