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Solider to Stand Trial for Bloody Sunday Killings

By Brian Dooley
IA Newsletter, February 1, 2025

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We’re supposed to call him Soldier F, for legal reasons. His real name is widely known among those familiar with the history of Bloody Sunday, the massacre of 13 unarmed protestors in Derry on January 30, 1972 – another died shortly after. In all, 27 unarmed civilians were killed or injured by British soldiers that day – many of them while attending to the wounded or fleeing … [Read more...] about Solider to Stand Trial for Bloody Sunday Killings

50 Years Later, Families of the Birmingham Pub Bombings Still Campaigning for the Truth

By Brian Dooley

Winter 2024

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Families of the victims of the November 1974 IRA Birmingham pub bombings say that British authorities are deliberately obstructing their search for the truth about what happened that night, and denying their rights to accountability. Between March 1973 and November 1974,  the IRA exploded hundreds of bombs across Britain, including several attacks on Birmingham. In 1974, … [Read more...] about 50 Years Later, Families of the Birmingham Pub Bombings Still Campaigning for the Truth

Campaign for Justice 50 Years On

By Brian Dooley
IA Newsletter, October 5, 2024

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Guildford Pub Bombs Continue to Haunt Victims and the British Criminal Justice System 50 years later.  Exactly 50 years ago, on Saturday night October 5, 1974, IRA bombs exploded in two pubs in the Surrey town of Guildford, south of London.  But despite a series of trials, appeals, an official inquiry and a coroners inquest, the full story of the attacks is still not … [Read more...] about Campaign for Justice 50 Years On

British Government Finally Grants
Finucane Family an Inquiry

By Brian Dooley
IA Newsletter, September 14, 2024

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Back in February 1989, George H.W. Bush had just succeeded Ronald Reagan as U.S. president. Margaret Thatcher was the British prime minister, and the conflict in Northern Ireland had another decade to run. Pat Finucane, a 39-year-old human rights lawyer living in Belfast, was shot dead in his home by members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) on 12 February of that year. … [Read more...] about

British Government Finally Grants
Finucane Family an Inquiry

Impunity and The Northern Ireland Conflict

By Brian Dooley
IA Newsletter July 6, 2024

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An international expert panel from Norway, Argentina, Israel, and Ireland has produced a monster piece of research on the British forces during the North of Ireland conflict that details impunity for torture, hundreds of killings, and many more in the context of collusion. Brian Dooley, Senior Advisor at Washington DC-based Human Rights First, and Honorary Professor of Practice … [Read more...] about Impunity and The Northern Ireland Conflict