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Operation Flavius (also referred to as the Gibraltar killings) was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. [1] [2] The trio were believed to be planning a car bomb attack on British military personnel in ...
This category includes individuals killed as a direct result of Provisional IRA attacks, but not those who died carrying them out. The category is not a comprehensive list of those killed by the Provisional IRA but only those individuals who have had pages created on Wikipedia.
He was abducted by the IRA in the summer of 1973, somewhere in the St James area of Belfast, killed and secretly buried at Waterfoot, County Antrim. [15] Columba McVeigh, a 19-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, disappeared in 1975. The IRA alleges he had confessed to being a British Army agent, instructed to infiltrate the IRA. [16]
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Jean McConville (née Murray; 7 May 1934 – 1 December 1972) [1] was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in 1972 after being falsely accused by the IRA of passing information to British forces.
Peter Wilson was an Irish man who was abducted on August 1, 1973, and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. After receiving reliable information his remains were found on November 2, 2010, buried at a beach in Waterfoot, County Antrim. [151] Murdered 37 years 1973 Kim Dae-jung: 49 Japan
Two people in Kentucky have been arrested in connection with an alleged murder after authorities said they believed they found the body of a 4-year-old girl who was reported missing this week but ...
The 16, referred to colloquially as "The Disappeared", were separately abducted, killed and buried in Ireland and France over the last 35 years, mainly in the 1970s. It is believed that they were abducted and killed by Irish Republican paramilitaries, mostly the Provisional Irish Republican Army, which denied involvement for years. All 16 ...