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The life and death of Irish Republican Army terrorist Mairead Farrell and how the British government deals with political terrorism.
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00:11In Gibraltar last year, British Special Forces killed three unarmed IRA guerrillas.
00:16One of the dead was Maraid Farrell, an IRA member from the age of 14.
00:21I saw internment, I saw the British soldiers.
00:24Well, living in Belfast was a political education in itself.
00:26Her life and death is the story of Northern Ireland's troubles and Britain's dilemma.
00:32How does a democratic society fight terrorism?
00:34But we're up against a ruthless, determined bunch of murderers here,
00:39and so drastic measures are justified.
00:42Tonight on Frontline, death of a terrorist.
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01:06This is Frontline,
01:08with Judy Woodruff.
01:13Good evening.
01:15This summer marks the 20th anniversary of British soldiers on the streets of Northern Ireland.
01:20In these 20 years, the Irish Republican Army has gained the reputation for being the most effective
01:27and professional terrorist organization in the world.
01:31Their acts pose a dilemma for Britain, as they would for any open society,
01:36how to combat terrorism without destroying the very values that society is trying to defend.
01:43The rule of law, freedom of the press.
01:45In fact, much of what you will see in tonight's film,
01:49interviews with members of the IRA and Sinn Féin, its political arm,
01:54could not be broadcast today in the UK.
01:58Tonight, Frontline examines Britain's dilemma
02:01through the life and death of one member of the IRA.
02:05Our program was produced by William Cran and Stephanie Tepper.
02:09It is called Death of a Terrorist.
02:12The Rock of Gibraltar.
02:22A last outpost of the British Empire.
02:35The changing of the guard here is popular with both tourists and local people
02:40who bring their children to watch.
02:47In 1987, British intelligence learned that the Irish Republican Army, the IRA,
02:53was planning a terrorist attack on the parade.
02:57Its target, the band.
03:00Its weapon, Simtex explosives.
03:02Its method, a car bomb.
03:04Army spotters had observed an IRA woman mingling with the crowd on several occasions.
03:16By early 1988, the British authorities were ready and waiting.
03:23On March 6th, a suspicious car had been parked where the band assembled.
03:31British sources say its driver was Sean Savage, 23 years old, an alleged bomb maker.
03:40Savage was followed down a back street where he met two more IRA members.
03:44They were Danny McCann, age 30, according to British sources, an experienced assassin,
03:51and 31-year-old Mairead Farrell, a university student with a prison record for terrorist crimes.
03:59The three members of this active service unit were passing a gas station on Winston Churchill Avenue
04:05when the British made their move.
04:18An eyewitness took these photographs seconds after the shooting stopped.
04:23These pictures were seized by British intelligence
04:25and not returned until the faces had been whited out.
04:29Two of those stooped over the bodies are members of the SAS,
04:33Britain's elite commando force.
04:35With them are one uniformed and two plainclothes policemen.
04:39What happened in Gibraltar, and why, still haunt the British government.
04:55The IRA's violent campaign is putting Britain's democratic institutions and traditions to the test.
05:05Mrs. Thatcher is the first British Prime Minister ever to need armed bodyguards 24 hours a day
05:10and an armour-plated car to take her to Parliament.
05:18Her minister for Northern Ireland is Tom King.
05:21We are determined to maintain the standards of British justice which are renowned throughout the world.
05:30We are determined not to sink to the levels of people who have no scruples about who they kill
05:35and no principles whatsoever.
05:37And I insist, and the government insists, and all those involved in the security forces' responsibility
05:42recognise that they must work within the rule of law
05:46and that they must act to fight against terrorism,
05:49but do it always within the rule of law.
05:51The IRA have admitted that the three-shot in Gibraltar had been on active service and did have explosives,
06:04but they had not committed a terrorist act when they were killed.
06:11When members of official security forces like the SAS shoot to kill,
06:17in other words, go out and shoot people who are suspected of being terrorists
06:21or of being about to commit an act,
06:23that's abandoning every civilised standard.
06:25But we're up against a ruthless, determined bunch of murderers here
06:35who are interested in the subversion of democracies so as to get their own way
06:39and impose their wishes, the wishes of a minority,
06:42over the whole of the people of Northern Ireland.
06:45And so drastic measures are necessary and needed and justified against them.
06:51The last body to be driven away was that of the young woman called Mairead Farrell.
07:09I laugh, I laugh, I laugh, not to worry.
07:15Shortly before her death, she gave a videotaped interview.
07:19The story of her life is the story of Northern Ireland's 20 years of violence
07:24and of the political and moral dilemmas posed to Britain.
07:29Though IRA volunteers are not allowed to discuss their so-called military activities,
07:35these videotapes offer a unique glimpse into the life and death of a terrorist.
07:42Ireland is a country.
07:43If you want it free, participate, to have your own freedom for your people to live as individuals
07:50and as an unequal status, well then you're going to have to be prepared to fight
07:55to get that and to remove the oppressor.
08:00We've got a foreign body here, which we want rid of.
08:04And that's the way I portray it.
08:06With helicopters and lookout towers, British soldiers police the Irish border.
08:14The Easter uprising of 1916 would lead eventually to an Irish republic in the south.
08:20It's three and a half million citizens, mainly Catholic and Celtic.
08:23But the north is still part of Britain.
08:25Here, a million Protestants remain loyal to the United Kingdom.
08:31The IRA is fighting to get British troops out of Ireland,
08:35to unite north with south, and to create a Marxist-style people's democracy.
08:46Army helicopters hover constantly over the Catholic ghettos of West Belfast.
08:50This is where the IRA recruited Mairead Farrell and her two comrades.
08:59And this is where they were mourned.
09:01Look at me, Lovok!
09:02Look at me, Lovok!
09:04Look at me, Lovok!
09:06Look at me, Lovok!
09:09They had grown up within a few blocks of each other.
09:14Here, the IRA dead are depicted as martyrs.
09:17Here, terrorists are seen as freedom fighters.
09:24Here, these IRA murals are part of the culture.
09:31This is West Belfast, the stronghold of the provisional IRA.
09:36They call it Provo Land.
09:40British troops here are rotated every four months.
09:43In that time, they do nothing but eat, sleep, and go out on patrol.
09:49These are everyday sites on West Belfast's Falls Road,
09:53where the people have elected an IRA supporter to Parliament.
09:56The Falls Road is in West Belfast.
10:01West Belfast grew many hundreds of years ago out of the swamp,
10:05when Catholics were forbidden to live within the town walls.
10:11And out of that arose a Catholic and then a nationalist and Republican ghetto.
10:14People here, on the basis of their religion,
10:19suffer unemployment.
10:22We have, in some parts of West Belfast, 87%, 85% unemployment.
10:27We have had 20 years of direct military occupation.
10:31So, in terms of military repression, in terms of social deprivation,
10:35in terms of discrimination,
10:36if you want a bit of that,
10:39the Falls Road's a very good place to go in.
10:42Beyond the Falls Road, few Catholics support Adams.
10:45They may dream of a united Ireland,
10:47but the vast majority vote for moderates like John Hume,
10:50who believes IRA violence feeds on itself.
10:54We have armed soldiers in our streets,
10:56and armed police in our streets,
10:57and they're under greatest strength in Catholic areas.
11:00Their reason for being in those areas
11:02are those are also the areas in which they are,
11:03and live and store guns and bombs.
11:07And, of course, you also have mass searches of houses,
11:11where the security forces get information
11:15that there's bombs and guns being held in some house in a particular street,
11:19so they search the whole street.
11:21And, of course, that upsets whole neighbourhoods and so forth and so on.
11:24And it's one of the terrible consequences of the present situation,
11:27and it sets the people at lockerheads with the security forces.
11:31Living on the Falls Road,
11:39living in Belfast was a political education in itself.
11:42My own family had a Republican background.
11:47Living in Belfast,
11:49living on the streets,
11:50seeing the British Army on the streets,
11:53that in itself was, you know,
11:56I just got a political education from looking around me.
11:59With its own music and its own culture,
12:07the West Belfast of Maraid's childhood
12:09was an Irish nationalist enclave in a British city.
12:18Falls is an Irish word.
12:20It means hedgerow,
12:21and Maraid was born here at 129 Falls Road,
12:26just round the corner from her father's shop
12:29and in the shadow of a Roman Catholic church.
12:38The family home movies show a typical little girl.
12:41Well, I had four boys and, of course,
12:47you know, I get a change.
12:48So it was great celebrations when Maraid was born.
12:56So we had pink champagne
12:58to celebrate Maraid's birth.
13:00I lived with my sister,
13:04who was Maraid's mother.
13:06She was cute as a baby,
13:09as a little girl.
13:10And like a lot of little girls,
13:12she loved to walk around in my high heels
13:15and she'd watch me getting ready to go out
13:18if I was going to a dance, you know,
13:20and like to wear my makeup and jewelry.
13:23I loved her.
13:28My father was an IRA man
13:32and he fought in the Black and Tan War.
13:35As we grew up,
13:37he would tell us stories about being on the run
13:40and his time in prison.
13:44My father would have influenced the grandchildren
13:48with his stories.
13:51He had a great love for Ireland
13:52and I think Maraid would have picked up that from him.
13:57I think she did inherit a lot of his ideals.
14:03Maraid was Irish-minded.
14:06She loved Irish music and Irish dancing.
14:16The family took their vacations in the Gaeltaxt,
14:19the Irish-speaking part of Ireland.
14:22She learned the Irish language at school
14:28and loved it all her life.
14:31But in the years that followed her first communion,
14:43she learned little of the world
14:44beyond West Belfast and the Falls Road.
14:51When Maraid was growing up,
14:52the politics of Northern Ireland
14:54were dominated by the million Protestants
14:56who wished to remain loyal to the United Kingdom.
14:59Descendants of Scottish settlers,
15:01these Loyalists actively discriminated
15:04against the half-million Catholics.
15:05But in the late 1960s,
15:09this Loyalist Protestant ascendancy
15:12was challenged by a campaign for civil rights.
15:15The minority community,
15:19the Catholic community of which I was part
15:21in 1968 and 1969,
15:25went on the streets,
15:26very much modelled on Martin Luther King.
15:29Our song was,
15:30We Shall Overcome.
15:31When people talked of the white Negroes of Derry,
15:37we talked about marching from Selma to Montgomery
15:39when we went from Belfast to Derry.
15:41When we, in the 60s,
15:43went looking civil rights,
15:46we were looking basically three fundamental rights,
15:49the right to vote,
15:50one person, one vote,
15:52fair allocation of housing,
15:54and fair allocation of jobs.
15:56The response to that civil rights campaign
16:00was not one of effective reform.
16:03There were some superficial reforms
16:04to deal with the minority grievances,
16:06but basically it was repressive and repression.
16:15Protest marches became riots.
16:21The violent reaction of the mainly Protestant police force
16:24was the start of a Loyalist backlash.
16:30Protestant mobs attacked Catholic nationalist areas
16:33like West Belfast.
16:36As law and order broke down,
16:38the British sent in the army.
16:41I think many people are quite ignorant
16:43of the reason why troops
16:44originally were deployed in Northern Ireland.
16:48It was the nationalists who asked
16:49for the British troops to come in,
16:50and of course that's what the British troops did,
16:52and they did protect them,
16:53and have been recognized to have done that.
16:56The troops arrived 20 years ago.
17:00They're still there.
17:03Eamon Malley, a Northern Irish journalist,
17:04has written a history of the IRA.
17:07The army came in here to try
17:09and stand between the two factions.
17:11Well, essentially, they came in as peacemakers.
17:14Back in 1969, when they came in
17:19to protect the Catholic nationalist people,
17:21as perceived by most people then,
17:23they were getting cups of tea on the Fald Road.
17:30Today, it would be two pounds of semptics
17:34they would get instead of a cup of tea.
17:35But in 1969, IRA militants did not welcome the army
17:42that were moving arms into West Belfast.
17:46Then you had the curfew,
17:48the Falls Road curfew in West Belfast.
17:50Ladies and gentlemen, you have five minutes
17:53to get outside the court.
17:55Otherwise, if you are still on the streets,
17:59you'll be liable to arrest.
18:01The security forces became aware
18:03of the presence of a lot of guns.
18:06So they went into the area to try and hook out,
18:09to root out as many weapons as possible.
18:13To be effective, they had to seal the area off
18:16so that they could systematically raid every house.
18:19Now, doors were pulled down, disemboweled,
18:22houses raided, and people literally locked
18:26in their own houses over a period of time.
18:30The British did uncover IRA arms caches,
18:34but the way they did so was to alienate local Catholics.
18:41Brina McDermott began writing a book
18:43about Maraid Farrell before her death.
18:46Maraid told her that the Falls Road curfew
18:49marked her political awakening.
18:53At the time when Maraid was about 12, 13,
18:56that particular incident, I think,
18:58had a huge impact on Maraid,
19:00and it sort of etched itself in her memory.
19:02Seeing the British Army in the streets
19:04was very much what propelled her into
19:06Republican activity.
19:07The whole of the Lower Falls,
19:10the place that she'd grown up in,
19:11was suddenly like something she said out of the Warsaw Dettel.
19:14Sandbags, soldiers, and machine guns.
19:17The whole place had been covered with CS gas.
19:22A lot of CS gas was being deployed in Northern Ireland,
19:24and really, as a result of that,
19:28the people of West Belfast became lost to the British authorities,
19:31I think, increasingly so, because of the gas.
19:38In West Belfast,
19:39children's games would begin to take a new and ominous turn.
19:43After 69,
19:48and with the,
19:49particularly after the curfew in the Falls Road,
19:52young kids began to see
19:54that the enemy was the British.
19:57And so,
19:58they started to play,
19:59rather than
20:00shooting Indians or cowboys,
20:03they were into shooting Brits.
20:05By 1971,
20:09the IRA had started a real shooting war.
20:23Working within the normal rule of law,
20:25the army felt unable to contain the violence.
20:35Paul Wilkinson is an international expert on terrorism.
20:45Given the enormous escalation of violence,
20:47and remember,
20:48deaths reached nearly 500 a year in 1972,
20:51it was necessary to do something pretty radical
20:55to try and prevent any further escalation.
20:59The radical solution was internment,
21:06or imprisonment without trial.
21:12Northern Ireland is a small community,
21:14the reasoning went.
21:16IRA members and their supporters
21:17are often well known to the security forces.
21:22So in 1971,
21:24the army began rounding up
21:25some 10,000 alleged Republicans.
21:27It was clumsily implemented.
21:33Far more people were gathered together
21:36and put into detention centers
21:40than was actually justifiable
21:42in terms of the evidence
21:44the police had against them.
21:46And I think it did act
21:47as a political propaganda weapon,
21:50as a recruiting sergeant for the IRA.
21:52So it was counterproductive.
21:55Maraid was one of many young people
21:57being sucked into the violence on the streets.
22:02I was very young
22:03when I became involved in the Republican movement.
22:06At that time,
22:06we were protesting about internment,
22:09and we were on the streets.
22:12Actually, when the Brits came into the area,
22:15they were always out buying bin lids,
22:17you know, all that crack.
22:18When trash can lids rattled out their warnings,
22:23Maraid was there.
22:26She would be out rattling bins,
22:27warning that there was a raid on,
22:30so that if anybody was armed,
22:32they should get out of the way,
22:34or her arms should be moved or whatever,
22:35or should not be moved.
22:36To use an IRA phrase,
22:42internment made Maraid go active.
22:45Dr. Connor Geraghty.
22:47Internment calls many young people
22:50throughout West Belfast in particular,
22:51but also in Northern Ireland,
22:53to turn much more clearly
22:54to the provisional IRA.
22:56Such people, in my view,
22:58would include Maraid Farrell.
23:00Given that she was brought up
23:01in a nationalist background,
23:03given that her grandfather
23:05had been in the IRA,
23:06it wouldn't have been unusual for Maraid,
23:08or for somebody of Maraid's background,
23:10to turn to armed struggle,
23:12as she termed it.
23:13Maraid was 14 years old
23:15when she became a volunteer in the IRA.
23:22At her school,
23:23she was leading a double life.
23:25For five years,
23:26she hid her involvement
23:27from friends and family.
23:32Just seeing the general,
23:35harassment of the people,
23:36and then internment.
23:38You know, you became aware, right?
23:39You know, I have to do something here,
23:41you know?
23:42This just isn't right,
23:43and you find yourself,
23:45you want to become more and more involved.
23:50There was a military campaign
23:51when I'm involved in that,
23:53and I became involved then.
23:55Every Easter,
24:07there's a march
24:08up the Falls Road
24:09to Milltown Cemetery,
24:11and I remember
24:13Maraid going off
24:14to that,
24:16dressed with a white blouse
24:18and a black skirt,
24:19which was a clear indication
24:21that she was going to march
24:22as a member of the FEMA,
24:24the youth section
24:26of the Republican movement.
24:31Some of the people I researched
24:33started out
24:33as children throwing stones.
24:36Then they graduated
24:40maybe on to
24:41throwing acid bombs.
24:48And then they would graduate
24:50into using petrol bombs.
24:52And somebody would take notice
25:08that they had an appetite
25:09for this type of action
25:11and activity.
25:16By 16,
25:17yes,
25:17she would have been involved
25:18in what she would have termed
25:19military activities,
25:21insofar as that meant
25:22carrying weapons,
25:23perhaps doing intelligence work,
25:25scouting troop movements,
25:28moving explosives,
25:31that sort of thing.
25:32At 16.
25:48Maraid had joined
25:49at the height
25:50of the IRA's bombing campaign.
25:52There were many
25:57civilian casualties,
25:59though businesses
25:59were the targets
26:00in the so-called
26:01economic war.
26:10Apparently,
26:11scenes like these
26:12did not weaken
26:12Maraid's faith
26:13in her cause.
26:14We will never know
26:21how many times
26:21she participated
26:22in such events.
26:27The one hard fact
26:29that she was prepared
26:30to speak about
26:30was that on April 5th,
26:331976,
26:34she and two other
26:35IRA volunteers
26:36bombed the Conway Hotel
26:37on the outskirts of Belfast.
26:39She was armed
26:40with a Colt .45
26:41and drove with the bombs
26:43to the Conway.
26:44When they got there,
26:45they took the security man hostage,
26:47tied him up.
26:48They got the bombs
26:49out of the car,
26:50or they went in,
26:51took over the
26:52hotel itself,
26:55said everybody freeze
26:56is the word she used,
26:57as far as I remember.
26:58This is a really
27:00Irish Republican army.
27:02She heard a voice
27:02shouting at her,
27:03you know,
27:04Maraid, run,
27:05it's the cops.
27:06And they shouted at her,
27:07stop,
27:07halt, wheel, fire.
27:09She was actually wearing
27:10a pair of platform shoes
27:11at the time,
27:12which meant she couldn't
27:13run very fast.
27:14And eventually,
27:14she was caught
27:15by a policeman.
27:17At the time she said to me,
27:18she said,
27:18I was very, very lucky
27:19that day.
27:21She said,
27:21nowadays,
27:22they don't take prisoners.
27:23The two blokes
27:24got away.
27:26They tried to hijack a car,
27:28in a house.
27:30They went into a house,
27:31and unfortunately,
27:31the house they went into
27:32was the house
27:33of a reserved policeman
27:34who had a gun,
27:35and he shot one of them dead.
27:37And the other fellow escaped,
27:39but eventually was,
27:41he died in hunger strength.
27:44By now,
27:45Maraid was behind bars.
27:47The police say
27:48when she heard
27:48of her comrade's death,
27:49she broke down.
27:51How did I ever get involved
27:53in all this?
27:53She sobbed.
27:56Then her composure returned,
27:58she answered no more
27:59police questions.
28:01From her cell
28:02in the police barracks,
28:03she heard the three time bombs
28:04ripped through the hotel.
28:10This time,
28:11there were no casualties.
28:12I myself
28:16was arrested in 1976
28:19and charged with
28:21causing an explosion,
28:23three explosions,
28:24and been in possession
28:26of two weapons,
28:28and also charged
28:29with membership
28:29at that point.
28:34Maraid would be tried
28:35in one of the special courts,
28:37set up by the British
28:38because the justice system
28:39was also under siege
28:41by the IRA.
28:44Perhaps the mafia
28:45is an illustration
28:46of where you're faced
28:47with such a criminal conspiracy
28:49of people
28:50who have no scruples,
28:51people who will murder
28:52and kill
28:53and maim
28:54and kill judges
28:56and intimidate juries
28:57and witnesses.
28:58You are sometimes
28:59maybe faced
29:00with no alternative.
29:02Compromises have to be made.
29:03There is no jury
29:05in these cases.
29:06The juries
29:06are absent.
29:09The judge decides
29:10all questions
29:11of fact and law
29:12and makes the decisions
29:13on sentencing.
29:15A single judge.
29:16And any particular conviction
29:18that comes from that
29:19plays into the IRA's hands.
29:22Why?
29:22The IRA can say,
29:23look,
29:23we told you this was kangaroo justice,
29:25we told you this was
29:26an unfair procedure.
29:30Now you see
29:30freedom fighters
29:33are being put away
29:33by bending the rules.
29:35Before the trial commenced,
29:36she decided
29:37not to recognize
29:38the jurisdiction
29:38of the court.
29:39This was an old
29:40Republican tradition
29:42that you didn't recognize
29:43the right
29:43of a British criminal court
29:45to try you
29:46because you were
29:47a soldier taken in arms.
29:49The fact that she went back
29:50to the old tradition
29:51just indicated
29:53how committed she was
29:54to the Republican ideal
29:57and how determined
29:59she was.
30:02I was sentenced
30:02to 14 years in prison
30:04but I served
30:0410 and a half years
30:05of it in prison.
30:08When Maraid started
30:09her time
30:10in Armagh Women's Jail,
30:12Britain had just adopted
30:13a new policy
30:14toward IRA prisoners.
30:16A policy known
30:17as criminalization.
30:21The theory behind
30:22the criminalization
30:23of the IRA
30:24originates in the failure
30:26of the policy of internment
30:27where one of the
30:29side effects of internment
30:30among others
30:30had been that the IRA
30:31could present themselves
30:33as freedom fighters.
30:34The fact that they
30:35were being detained
30:36without charge
30:37tended to confirm that.
30:38The fact that they
30:39enjoyed special status
30:40tended to confirm that.
30:42From 76-77
30:43the government decided
30:45to switch tactics
30:46and criminalization
30:49was the consequence
30:50of this switch.
30:51The idea being
30:52that the IRA
30:53are a bunch of criminals.
30:54that their political rhetoric
30:57is irrelevant
30:57and that they can be
30:59countered
31:00by the rule of law.
31:03Before criminalization
31:04IRA members
31:05did not have to wear
31:06prison uniform
31:07or do prison work.
31:09Maraid was the first woman
31:10to be denied
31:11this special status.
31:13Political status
31:14is just a mystery.
31:15So I was the only one
31:16at that stage
31:17without political status.
31:19And they said
31:19right from then on
31:20we were to be treated
31:20as criminals
31:21which meant
31:22we were to do prison work
31:23and not get the same
31:24amenities or privileges
31:25that were given
31:26to our comrades
31:27who had political status
31:29in the other wing in Irma.
31:30And as far as I was concerned
31:32I was a political prisoner.
31:34I had been motivated
31:35by the political situation
31:36in this country
31:37and if it wasn't for
31:39the special situation
31:40in this country
31:41I would never have been in prison.
31:42So we went on
31:45a no work protest
31:46refused to do the work
31:47at that period
31:47which was 76.
31:49They threw us
31:50into our cells
31:51and we were locked up
31:5124 hours.
31:53We wouldn't allow us
31:54out to use
31:54any toilet amenities.
31:57In the cells
31:57all we have
31:58is a chamber pot.
31:59Couldn't use
31:59the toilet facilities
32:00so therefore we had
32:02slaps
32:02in the chamber pots
32:04and we had the slab
32:05out in the wing
32:05and that's when
32:06the no wash
32:07protest began.
32:10Father Murray
32:10used to visit
32:11the women in jail
32:12after witnessing
32:14their no work protest
32:15for four years
32:16he saw them escalated
32:17into the no wash protest.
32:20In order to break
32:21this protest
32:23quickly
32:23the authorities
32:25didn't clean out
32:27those cells
32:27for months.
32:29For the result
32:29that imagine
32:31two girls
32:31in a very confined
32:33little space
32:34and the urine
32:36and excrement
32:37for a number of months
32:38gathering.
32:39Maraid led the IRA
32:42women during the
32:43no wash.
32:44As part of their
32:45protest
32:45the women
32:46emptied their
32:47chamber pots
32:47on the floor
32:48and smeared
32:49excrement
32:49on the cell walls.
32:51The cell was just
32:52like a cave
32:53basically
32:53it was completely
32:55covered
32:55the walls
32:56ceiling everywhere
32:57with excrement.
32:58and the first thing
32:59that met you
33:00of course
33:00was the smell
33:01I mean
33:01this
33:02heavy aroma
33:04of urine
33:05and then
33:06you had to
33:07hop
33:09over the flagstones
33:11to find a
33:12dry part
33:13for your feet.
33:14For girls
33:15who are so
33:16careful
33:17naturally
33:17of their person
33:18it was a
33:19very severe
33:20suffering.
33:21the only time
33:23they could get
33:24a drop of water
33:24was when they
33:25were out
33:25in the rain
33:26and they
33:26just loved
33:27to put their
33:27faces to the
33:28rain
33:28when they
33:29got out
33:30for one hour
33:30you see
33:31to the prison yard.
33:33There were like
33:3323 hours a day
33:34in a cell
33:34which was covered
33:35in a screta
33:36because we had
33:37no means
33:38to use the
33:38toilets
33:39and this
33:40continued
33:41from February
33:421980
33:43until March
33:44the 1st
33:441981.
33:45Maraid
33:47and others
33:47besides Maraid
33:49never
33:50wavered
33:52and never
33:52faltered
33:53and did
33:53in a sense
33:54set their
33:54faces like
33:55flint.
33:57And we felt
33:57you know
33:57we're going
33:58to have to
33:59just
34:00we're going
34:01to have to
34:02come up
34:02with something
34:03else
34:03and there
34:03wasn't
34:04anything else.
34:05Hunger strike
34:05was our last
34:06it was our
34:07last weapon
34:07and of course
34:08hunger strike
34:08has to be
34:09your last weapon
34:09because it's
34:10death
34:10you know
34:11and that's
34:12what we felt
34:13you know
34:13we tried
34:13everything.
34:14It was very
34:15traumatic
34:16I think more
34:17so on her
34:17parents
34:18actually
34:18funnily enough
34:20than herself.
34:21We were
34:21really
34:22heartbroken
34:23because
34:25I knew
34:26that
34:26if it was
34:28to the death
34:28she would be
34:29in it
34:29to the death
34:30she was that
34:32just so
34:32determined.
34:35Your mind's
34:36your strongest
34:36weapon
34:36and that's
34:37how we
34:37always
34:38counteract
34:39whatever
34:39they do
34:40because they
34:40can't control
34:41their minds
34:41and they
34:42can't get
34:42inside them
34:43and that's
34:44their failure.
34:46Every day
34:47I went
34:47three of them
34:48were on the
34:49hunger strike
34:49and very
34:51soon I think
34:52they were
34:53brought to
34:53the prison
34:55infirmary
34:56which was
34:56just really
34:58a double
34:58sale in
34:59another part
34:59of the prison.
35:01And I saw
35:02a terrible
35:02change in her
35:03you know
35:04her face
35:04had got so
35:05thin and her
35:06teeth seemed
35:07to be getting
35:08all along
35:08and I
35:09noticed that
35:10she seemed
35:13to have
35:13difficulty
35:14in speaking.
35:17Her mouth
35:18seemed to be
35:19dry and
35:20she really
35:22looked awful.
35:22the terrorists
35:25desperate to
35:26try and
35:27emotionally
35:27blackmail
35:28the government
35:29through reaching
35:30public opinion
35:31and the
35:31government
35:31were actually
35:33sentencing
35:34their own
35:35young members
35:36to death
35:36in order to
35:38try and bring
35:38that blackmail
35:39objective.
35:41And Mrs.
35:41Thatcher and
35:42her colleagues
35:42showed great
35:43moral courage
35:44and steadfastness
35:45in absolutely
35:47resisting that
35:48blackmail.
35:49the policy
35:51was successful
35:52in the short
35:53term.
35:53Mrs.
35:54Thatcher
35:54succeeded
35:55and it wasn't
35:55government
35:56it was Margaret
35:56Thatcher.
35:57She won.
35:58They died.
35:59So many of them
36:00died eventually
36:01they called it
36:01off.
36:02They don't have
36:02special status.
36:03Well done
36:04Mrs.
36:04Thatcher.
36:07Ten men
36:08died during
36:09the hunger
36:09strike.
36:11Earlier
36:11a false
36:12hope of
36:12victory
36:13had led
36:13the women
36:14to call
36:14off their
36:15protest.
36:17After that
36:18the raid
36:18was too
36:19weak to
36:19embark
36:20on a
36:20second
36:20strike.
36:23The IRA
36:24in local
36:25and international
36:26terms
36:26developed a
36:27credibility
36:27which they
36:28had lost
36:28in the period
36:29of criminalization.
36:30And in
36:31local terms
36:31of course
36:32that
36:32manifested
36:33itself
36:33in hugely
36:33increased
36:34membership
36:34and
36:35great
36:36success
36:37in
36:37elections.
36:40The hunger
36:41strikes led
36:42to the rise
36:42of Sinn Féin
36:43the political
36:44wing of the
36:45IRA.
36:48Sinn Féin
36:50is Gaelic
36:50for
36:51ourselves
36:51alone.
36:54Though
36:55not elected
36:56the raid
36:56was one
36:57of the
36:57prisoners
36:57who ran
36:58for office
36:59on a
36:59pro-IRA
36:59ticket.
37:01The IRA
37:02are still
37:03sort of
37:04gaining
37:05from the
37:05upsurge
37:06in the
37:06membership
37:07which accrued
37:08directly
37:08from
37:09Mrs.
37:09Thatcher's
37:10in a
37:10verticomus
37:10success.
37:14Maraid's
37:14protests
37:15had cost
37:15her three
37:16years
37:16good
37:17time
37:17but
37:18now
37:18after
37:18ten
37:19and a
37:19half
37:19years
37:19her
37:20sentence
37:20was
37:20at
37:21an
37:21end.
37:24She
37:25was
37:25crying.
37:26She
37:27was
37:27crying
37:28leaving
37:28the
37:29girls
37:29behind.
37:31She
37:31said
37:31it
37:31was
37:32the
37:32most
37:32awful
37:33thing
37:33to
37:34be
37:34coming
37:34out
37:34and
37:35leaving
37:35all
37:35those
37:35other
37:36ones
37:36there
37:36that
37:38she
37:38had
37:38been
37:38with
37:39for
37:39all
37:39those
37:40years.
37:42And
37:42of course
37:42we
37:43were
37:43all
37:43crying
37:43as
37:44well
37:44because
37:44she
37:44was
37:45seeing
37:47her
37:47out.
37:51Everybody
37:52was here
37:52the house
37:53was packed.
37:56Telegrams
37:56phone calls
37:57and flowers
37:58this place
37:59was like
37:59a florist.
38:01She
38:02was very
38:02very
38:03popular
38:04and very
38:05well liked.
38:07People
38:07said to me
38:08God
38:08when
38:08Maraid
38:08gets out
38:09she's
38:09going to
38:09be
38:09over
38:10serious
38:10full of
38:11politics
38:11and
38:12sullen
38:12and
38:13she
38:13came
38:14out
38:14and
38:14she
38:14was
38:14completely
38:14the
38:15opposite.
38:16She
38:16was
38:16into
38:17high
38:17heels
38:17fancy
38:18clothes
38:19disco
38:19dancing
38:20earrings
38:20perfume
38:21hair
38:22perms
38:23etc.
38:24And
38:24really
38:25loved
38:25life.
38:31Maraid
38:32was back
38:32in West
38:33Belfast.
38:35She
38:35moved
38:36into the
38:36house
38:36where her
38:37parents
38:37now
38:37lived.
38:38she'd
38:41been
38:4119
38:42when
38:42she
38:42went
38:42to
38:42prison.
38:43When
38:43she
38:43came
38:44home
38:44she
38:44was
38:4430.
38:47Her
38:47bedroom
38:48has
38:48remained
38:49unaltered
38:49since
38:49the
38:50day
38:50she
38:50died.
38:52Everything
38:52is just
38:52as she
38:53left
38:53it.
39:02I
39:03have
39:03spent
39:04quite
39:04some
39:04time
39:04in
39:05prison
39:05but
39:05it's
39:07been
39:07an
39:07experience
39:08you
39:08know
39:08everything
39:09is
39:09an
39:09experience
39:10and
39:10it's
39:10an
39:10advancement
39:11you
39:12know
39:12well
39:13I
39:13could
39:13have
39:13done
39:13without
39:14it
39:14you
39:14know
39:14and
39:15yes
39:15I'm
39:15more
39:16politicized
39:16for it
39:17and
39:17I've
39:17learned
39:18an
39:18awful
39:18lot
39:18that
39:19I
39:19wouldn't
39:19have
39:19learned
39:19otherwise
39:20I'd
39:21say
39:22discipline
39:23and
39:24determination
39:25and
39:26you
39:26know
39:27you
39:27find
39:27a
39:27lot
39:28of
39:28qualities
39:28in
39:29there
39:29because
39:29you
39:29have
39:30to
39:30she
39:30had
39:30always
39:31said
39:31that
39:31whenever
39:32she
39:32got
39:32out
39:33of
39:33jail
39:33she
39:34was
39:34more
39:34interested
39:34in
39:34finishing
39:35the
39:35war
39:35and
39:36after
39:37that
39:37she
39:38would
39:38do
39:38different
39:38things
39:38but
39:39she
39:39would
39:39come
39:39back
39:39to
39:39the
39:39struggle
39:40that
39:40was
39:40her
39:41first
39:41priority
39:41politically
39:43she
39:43was
39:43very
39:43dedicated
39:44and
39:44she
39:44believed
39:45in
39:45the
39:47cause
39:47and
39:47she
39:48believed
39:48in
39:48what
39:49she
39:49was
39:49doing
39:49and
39:50I
39:51wasn't
39:51in
39:52the
39:52least
39:52I
39:52would
39:52have
39:52been
39:52more
39:52surprised
39:53if
39:53she
39:53had
39:53not
39:54gone
39:54back
39:54to
39:54the
39:54IRS
39:54Maraid
39:59was
39:59often
39:59to
39:59be
39:59found
40:00at
40:00the
40:00Republican
40:00Press
40:01Center
40:01on
40:01the
40:01Falls
40:02Road
40:02here
40:05she
40:06sometimes
40:06gave
40:06press
40:07and
40:07television
40:07interviews
40:08she
40:10tell
40:10reporters
40:10she
40:10was
40:11doing
40:11political
40:11work
40:12for
40:12Sinn Féin
40:12on
40:14the
40:14record
40:15she
40:15denied
40:15any
40:15involvement
40:16with
40:16the
40:16IRA
40:17fighters
40:17on
40:17the
40:18poster
40:18behind
40:18her
40:29Sinn Féin
40:30official
40:31policy
40:31is
40:31to
40:32give
40:32political
40:32support
40:33to
40:33the
40:33IRA's
40:34armed
40:34struggle
40:35but
40:39elected
40:40politicians
40:40throughout
40:41Britain
40:41and
40:42Ireland
40:42challenge
40:42the
40:43democratic
40:43credentials
40:44of a
40:44party
40:44pledged
40:45to
40:45support
40:46terror
40:46they
40:49also
40:49point
40:49to
40:49this
40:49Pentagon
40:50survey
40:50of
40:51world
40:51terrorism
40:51which
40:52says
40:52that
40:53the
40:53leadership
40:53of
40:53the
40:53IRA
40:54and
40:54Sinn Féin
40:55are
40:55one
40:56and
40:56the
40:56same
40:56what
41:00percentage
41:00of
41:00all
41:01Irishmen
41:01would
41:02you
41:02claim
41:02or
41:03would
41:03you
41:03imagine
41:03would
41:03vote
41:04for
41:04Sinn Féin
41:04in
41:04an
41:05I
41:05know
41:05who
41:06votes
41:06for
41:06Sinn Féin
41:06I
41:07mean
41:0711.4%
41:08in the
41:08North
41:09vote
41:09for
41:09Sinn Féin
41:09and
41:10something
41:10like
41:103%
41:11in
41:11the
41:1126
41:12counties
41:12vote
41:12for
41:12Sinn Féin
41:13that's
41:13who
41:13votes
41:14for
41:14Sinn Féin
41:14added
41:15together
41:16roughly
41:165%
41:17of
41:17the
41:17whole
41:17of
41:17Ireland
41:17I
41:18mean
41:18I'm
41:18not
41:18disputing
41:19the
41:19fingers
41:19I
41:20wouldn't
41:20give
41:20the
41:20IRA
41:21the
41:21right
41:21to
41:21negotiate
41:22in
41:22my
41:22name
41:22and
41:23neither
41:24would
41:2495%
41:25of
41:25the
41:25people
41:26of
41:26Ireland
41:26I
41:28have
41:28no
41:28gun
41:28in
41:28my
41:28pocket
41:29I
41:29have
41:29no
41:29gun
41:29under
41:29the
41:30table
41:30I
41:30have
41:30no
41:30bombs
41:30anywhere
41:31I
41:31have
41:31no
41:31military
41:32friends
41:32who
41:32do
41:33in
41:33other
41:33words
41:34I
41:34wouldn't
41:34sit
41:35round
41:35the
41:35table
41:35with
41:35people
41:36who
41:36reserve
41:36the
41:37right
41:37to
41:37pull
41:37a
41:37gun
41:37on
41:38me
41:38if
41:38they
41:38don't
41:38get
41:38their
41:38way
41:39but
41:39I
41:39am
41:39not
41:39trying
41:40to
41:40argue
41:40that
41:41the
41:41majority
41:41of
41:41people
41:42in
41:42arms
41:42support
41:42the
41:42IRA
41:43and
41:44that
41:44has
41:44never
41:44been
41:45my
41:45position
41:46I
41:46don't
41:46know
41:47of
41:47any
41:47country
41:47in
41:47the
41:48world
41:48where
41:48a
41:49majority
41:49of
41:49citizens
41:49supported
41:50the
41:50Revolutionary
41:50forces
41:51while
41:51those
41:51forces
41:52were
41:52engaged
41:52in
41:52arms
41:52struggle
41:53The
41:56year
41:56after
41:56Maraid's
41:57release
41:57Irish
41:58and
41:58British
41:59security
41:59forces
42:00feared
42:00that
42:00despite
42:01successful
42:01arms
42:02fines
42:02the
42:03IRA
42:03was
42:03about
42:04to
42:04take
42:04arms
42:04struggle
42:05a
42:05step
42:05further
42:05The
42:07IRA
42:08was
42:08known
42:08to
42:08enjoy
42:09the
42:09financial
42:09and
42:09military
42:10backing
42:10of
42:11Libya's
42:11Colonel
42:11Gaddafi
42:12Quantities
42:14of weapons
42:14had been
42:15smuggled
42:15ashore
42:15in
42:16remote
42:16parts
42:16of
42:16the
42:17Irish
42:17coast
42:17These
42:19included
42:19three
42:19tons
42:20of
42:20Semtex
42:21the
42:21same
42:21deadly
42:22undetectable
42:23plastic
42:23explosive
42:24that
42:24downed
42:25the
42:25Pan Am
42:25Jumbo
42:26over
42:26Scotland
42:26Semtex
42:31caused
42:31carnage
42:32at
42:32Enniskillan
42:33as Protestants
42:34commemorated
42:35the dead
42:35of two
42:35world wars
42:36The target
42:38was an
42:38army band
42:39but this
42:40was not
42:40what the
42:41IRA
42:41called
42:41a
42:41clean
42:42operation
42:4211
42:44civilians
42:44died
42:45and 60
42:45more
42:46were
42:46maimed
42:46and
42:46injured
42:47Mairead
42:48Farrell
42:49told
42:49friends
42:49she
42:50disapproved
42:50But at
42:53the same
42:54time
42:54she
42:54herself
42:55was
42:55planning
42:55to
42:55use
42:55Semtex
42:56in a
42:56bomb
42:56attack
42:57on an
42:57army
42:58band
42:58where
42:59the
42:59chance
42:59of
42:59civilian
43:00casualties
43:00was
43:00high
43:01her
43:03family
43:03seems to
43:04have
43:04sensed
43:04that she
43:05knew
43:05her
43:05own
43:05life
43:06might
43:06be
43:06at
43:06risk
43:07It was
43:08her
43:08father's
43:08birthday
43:09and
43:10she
43:11put her
43:12arms
43:12around
43:13him
43:13and
43:13wished
43:14him
43:14a
43:14happy
43:14birthday
43:15and
43:15told him
43:16how much
43:17she
43:17loved
43:17him
43:18and
43:20she
43:22said
43:22you know
43:22I could
43:23be shot
43:23dead
43:24that was
43:25her exact
43:26words
43:26and
43:29he
43:29joked
43:29and
43:30said
43:30funerals
43:33are too
43:33expensive
43:34and
43:36she
43:36said
43:37you
43:37don't
43:38have
43:38to
43:38worry
43:39the
43:39IRA
43:40will
43:40bury
43:41me
43:41the
43:44last
43:44time
43:44Mrs.
43:45Farrell
43:45saw her
43:45daughter
43:46alive
43:46was
43:46on
43:47her
43:4731st
43:47birthday
43:48a
43:53British
43:53TV
43:53documentary
43:54has
43:54reconstructed
43:55what
43:55happened
43:56next
43:56the
43:57raid
43:57flew
43:58to
43:58Spain
43:58where
43:58she
43:59met
43:59up
43:59with
43:59her
43:59IRA
44:00comrades
44:00Sean
44:01Savage
44:01and
44:01Dan
44:02McCann
44:02on
44:07March
44:076th
44:081988
44:09she
44:09rented
44:09a
44:10white
44:10Ford
44:10Fiesta
44:11the
44:12car
44:12was
44:13later
44:13found
44:13parked
44:14here
44:14in
44:20its
44:20trunk
44:21were
44:21over
44:21140
44:22pounds
44:22of
44:22Semtex
44:23explosive
44:23that
44:27same
44:28day
44:28the
44:29three
44:29terrorists
44:29set
44:30out
44:30for
44:30Gibraltar
44:31unknown
44:34to
44:34them
44:34they
44:34were
44:34being
44:35followed
44:35by
44:35Spanish
44:36undercover
44:36officers
44:37the
44:38Spanish
44:39police
44:39were
44:39in
44:39radio
44:40contact
44:40with
44:40their
44:40British
44:41counterparts
44:41later
44:54a
44:54coroner's
44:55court
44:55in
44:55Gibraltar
44:56would
44:56hear
44:56that
44:56the
44:57British
44:57even
44:57knew
44:57the
44:58names
44:58on
44:58their
44:58false
44:59passports
44:59they
45:01actually
45:02had
45:02a
45:02special
45:03branch
45:03officer
45:03from
45:04the
45:04Gibraltar
45:05police
45:05on
45:06the
45:06Spanish
45:06side
45:07of
45:07the
45:07frontier
45:07looking
45:08for
45:08these
45:08passports
45:09and
45:10they
45:10had
45:10others
45:10on
45:11the
45:11Gibraltar
45:12side
45:12looking
45:12for
45:13it
45:13and
45:14yet
45:15they
45:15say
45:15that
45:16the
45:16three
45:16of
45:16them
45:17managed
45:17to
45:17pass
45:17by
45:17without
45:18their
45:18passports
45:18being
45:19noted
45:19did
45:22they
45:22lure
45:22them
45:23into
45:23Gibraltar
45:24in
45:25order
45:25to
45:25provide
45:26an
45:26excuse
45:26for
45:26killing
45:27them
45:27the
45:30IRA's
45:30plans
45:31had
45:31been
45:31completely
45:31penetrated
45:32by
45:32British
45:33intelligence
45:33some
45:37days
45:37before
45:38Prime
45:38Minister
45:39Thatcher
45:39had
45:39approved
45:40the
45:40deployment
45:40of
45:40Britain's
45:41elite
45:41commando
45:42force
45:42this
45:44government
45:44film
45:45shows
45:45them
45:45in
45:45training
45:46this
45:52is
45:52the
45:53SAS
45:53the
45:54special
45:55air
45:55service
45:55the
46:04SAS
46:05troopers
46:05claim
46:06that
46:06their
46:06plan
46:06was
46:07to
46:07arrest
46:07the
46:07three
46:08terrorists
46:08they
46:10have
46:10denied
46:10under
46:10oath
46:11that
46:11their
46:11orders
46:11were
46:11to
46:12shoot
46:12to
46:12kill
46:12well
46:17the
46:17SAS
46:17is
46:18designed
46:18as
46:19a
46:19killing
46:19force
46:20it
46:20is
46:20not
46:21there
46:21to
46:21capture
46:21people
46:22it
46:23is
46:23not
46:23there
46:24to
46:24arrest
46:24people
46:25it
46:26is
46:26there
46:26as
46:27a
46:27cutting
46:27edge
46:28if
46:31you
46:31bring
46:31the
46:31SAS
46:32over
46:33a
46:33thousand
46:33miles
46:34to
46:34a
46:34situation
46:35against
46:35to
46:35my
46:36mind
46:36you
46:36intend
46:36to
46:37do
46:37what
46:38the
46:38SAS
46:38does
46:39and that
46:39is
46:39kill
46:39people
46:40the
46:46SAS
46:47claim
46:47they
46:47opened
46:48fire
46:48at
46:48the
46:48gas
46:49station
46:49because
46:49the
46:49terrorists
46:50made
46:50suspicious
46:51movements
46:51but
46:54independent
46:54eyewitnesses
46:55flatly
46:56contradict
46:56the
46:56official
46:57version
46:57they
47:01say
47:01they
47:01saw
47:01no
47:02attempt
47:02to
47:02make
47:02an
47:03arrest
47:03and
47:03no
47:04suspicious
47:04movements
47:05they
47:06didn't
47:06make
47:06any
47:06movements
47:07they
47:07put
47:07their
47:07hands
47:07up
47:08I
47:08believe
47:09I've
47:09said
47:09it
47:10before
47:10yes
47:11they
47:11just
47:11put
47:11their
47:11hands
47:12up
47:12outside
47:13the
47:13petrol
47:13station
47:13I
47:14saw
47:14a
47:14man
47:14standing
47:15with
47:16both
47:17hands
47:17outstretched
47:18holding
47:18a gun
47:19and
47:19firing
47:20very
47:20rapidly
47:20into
47:21another
47:22man
47:22who
47:23was
47:23falling
47:24backwards
47:24with
47:25his
47:25hands
47:25like
47:26this
47:26and
47:26falling
47:27back
47:28almost
47:29in
47:29slow
47:29motion
47:30he
47:31went
47:32right
47:32down
47:32and
47:33the
47:33firing
47:33continued
47:34that
47:34he
47:34was
47:34still
47:34being
47:35shot
47:35at
47:35as
47:35he
47:35went
47:35down
47:36once
47:36they
47:36dropped
47:37down
47:37one
47:38of the
47:38men
47:39this
47:39men
47:39who
47:39had
47:40still
47:40had
47:40the
47:41gun
47:41in
47:41his
47:41hand
47:41carried
47:42on
47:42shooting
47:43he
47:43bent
47:43down
47:44and
47:44carried
47:45on
47:45shooting
47:45at
47:45their
47:46heads
47:46after
47:49the
47:49shootings
47:49the
47:50police
47:50failed
47:50to
47:50photograph
47:51the
47:51bodies
47:51or
47:52preserve
47:53the
47:53forensic
47:53evidence
47:54they
47:56they
47:56they
47:56even
47:56tried
47:56to
47:57deny
47:57that
47:57the
47:57Spanish
47:57police
47:58had
47:58followed
47:58the
47:59terrorists
47:59and
47:59warned
48:00of
48:00their
48:00arrival
48:00the
48:03government
48:03conduct
48:04since
48:04then
48:04has
48:05done
48:05nothing
48:05to
48:05dispel
48:06a
48:06strong
48:06air
48:07of
48:07cover
48:07up
48:08and
48:08official
48:09disinformation
48:09in
48:14London
48:15the
48:15Gibraltar
48:15story
48:16was
48:16headline
48:16news
48:17on
48:20the
48:20day
48:20of
48:20the
48:20shootings
48:21reporters
48:21were
48:21given
48:21unattributable
48:22briefings
48:23by
48:23government
48:24information
48:24officers
48:25all
48:2711
48:28national
48:28newspapers
48:29and
48:29all
48:29four
48:30TV
48:30networks
48:30carried
48:31stories
48:31of a
48:32massive
48:32car
48:32bomb
48:33that
48:33had
48:33been
48:33diffused
48:34and
48:34implied
48:35that
48:35the
48:35three
48:36terrorists
48:36had
48:37died
48:37in
48:37a
48:37gun
48:37fight
48:37the
48:40tabloids
48:41were
48:41jubilant
48:42but
48:46twenty-four
48:46hours
48:47later
48:47the
48:48government
48:48told
48:48members
48:49of
48:49parliament
48:49a
48:50very
48:50different
48:51story
48:51those
48:52killed
48:52were
48:52subsequently
48:53found
48:53not to
48:54have
48:54been
48:54carrying
48:54arms
48:55parked
48:56Renault
48:56car
48:57was
48:57subsequently
48:57dealt
48:57with
48:58by a
48:59military
48:59bomb
48:59disposal
48:59team
49:00it has
49:01now been
49:01established
49:02that it
49:02did not
49:02contain
49:03an
49:03explosive
49:03device
49:04Mrs.
49:06Thatcher
49:06who sent
49:07in the
49:07SAS
49:08says a
49:08coroner's
49:09court
49:09found
49:09the
49:10shootings
49:10to be
49:10lawful
49:11but
49:14new
49:14evidence
49:14and the
49:15many
49:15discrepancies
49:15in the
49:16government
49:16story
49:17have
49:17led
49:17Amnesty
49:18International
49:18to call
49:19for a
49:19fresh
49:19inquiry
49:20it was
49:25quite
49:26clear
49:26that
49:26the
49:27authorities
49:27had
49:27advanced
49:28information
49:28about
49:29the
49:29presence
49:30of
49:30those
49:30three
49:30people
49:31in
49:31Gibraltar
49:31they
49:32suspected
49:33them
49:33of being
49:34there
49:34to do
49:34something
49:35they
49:36should
49:36have
49:36arrested
49:36them
49:37I
49:38think
49:38they
49:38had
49:38every
49:38opportunity
49:39to
49:39arrest
49:39them
49:40they
49:40were
49:40unarmed
49:40instead
49:41of
49:41shooting
49:42them
49:42down
49:42in
49:42the
49:42street
49:42instead
49:43of
49:43being
49:43judge
49:44jury
49:44and
49:44executioner
49:45all at
49:45the
49:45one
49:45time
49:45Britain
49:46seems
49:47to have
49:47abandoned
49:47what would
49:49have been
49:49taken for
49:49granted
49:50before
49:50that it
49:50would want
49:51above all
49:52else
49:52to show
49:53that it
49:54is not
49:54engaged in
49:55policies of
49:55summary execution
49:56of its
49:56enemies
49:57that it
49:58is fighting
49:58this war
49:59for certain
50:00values
50:01among which
50:02is the
50:03fundamental
50:03belief that
50:04government
50:04should be
50:04restrained by
50:05the rule
50:05law
50:06there's
50:06only one
50:07fact
50:08which I
50:09don't
50:09think
50:09anybody
50:09has
50:10challenged
50:10that
50:11three
50:12terrorists
50:12went to
50:13Gibraltar
50:13took
50:15with
50:15them
50:15had
50:15available
50:16to
50:16them
50:17the
50:17biggest
50:17bomb
50:18in
50:19terms
50:19of
50:19the
50:19explosive
50:20power
50:21available
50:22and
50:23were
50:23prepared
50:23to
50:24detonate
50:24that
50:24and
50:25were
50:25preparing
50:26to
50:26detonate
50:27it
50:27in
50:27the
50:27middle
50:27of
50:28Gibraltar
50:28thank
50:29god
50:29that
50:29actually
50:30that
50:30didn't
50:31happen
50:31the
50:43funeral
50:43on the
50:43falls
50:44road
50:44saw
50:45the
50:45biggest
50:45crowds
50:46since
50:46the
50:46hunger
50:46strikes
50:47to
50:50the
50:50people
50:50of
50:50west
50:50Belfast
50:51Maraid
50:52and
50:52her
50:52comrades
50:53were
50:53martyrs
50:54murdered
50:54by
50:55the
50:55British
50:55but
50:57though
50:58many
50:58condemn
50:58British
50:59conduct
50:59in
50:59Gibraltar
51:00the
51:00vast
51:01majority
51:01of
51:02Irish
51:02Catholics
51:02still
51:03reject
51:03IRA
51:04violence
51:05they
51:05the
51:06IRA
51:06and
51:07their
51:07fellow
51:07travelers
51:07have
51:08killed
51:0862%
51:09of all
51:09the
51:09people
51:10who
51:10have
51:10died
51:10in
51:10Northern
51:10Ireland
51:11the
51:12British
51:12army
51:12have
51:12killed
51:1310%
51:13and
51:14the
51:14police
51:15have
51:15killed
51:152%
51:16the
51:16IC
51:16so
51:17that
51:17Irish
51:18republicans
51:19have
51:19killed
51:20six
51:20times as
51:21many
51:21people
51:21as
51:22the
51:22British
51:22army
51:22they
51:23have
51:23killed
51:2430
51:24times
51:25as
51:25many
51:25people
51:25as
51:26the
51:26RUC
51:26see
51:27they're
51:33prepared
51:34to go
51:34on
51:34playing
51:35on
51:35the
51:35old
51:35emotions
51:36and
51:36heartstrings
51:37and
51:37mislead
51:38people
51:38and
51:39carry
51:39on
51:39this
51:39campaign
51:40which
51:40results
51:41in
51:41yet more
51:42tragedy
51:43yet more
51:44suffering
51:44yet more
51:45deaths
51:46if
51:47extreme
51:47republicans
51:48commit
51:48their
51:49atrocities
51:49then
51:50the
51:50extreme
51:51loyalists
51:52murder
51:53back
51:53in
51:53return
51:54it's
51:55a
51:55very
51:55tragic
51:56and
51:56awful
51:56situation
51:57which
51:57violence
51:58only
51:58makes
51:59worse
51:59the
52:11coffins
52:11were
52:11being
52:11lowered
52:12into
52:12the
52:12ground
52:12when
52:13a
52:13protestant
52:14loyalist
52:14gunman
52:14attacked
52:15the
52:15mourners
52:1660
52:26were
52:26wounded
52:26and
52:27three
52:27died
52:28in a
52:28hail
52:28of
52:28grenades
52:29and
52:29automatic
52:30pistol
52:30fire
52:31there's
52:44not a
52:44single
52:44injustice
52:45in
52:45northern
52:45ireland
52:46that
52:46justifies
52:47the
52:47taking
52:47of
52:47a
52:47single
52:48human
52:48life
52:48martin
52:49luther
52:50king
52:50said
52:50that
52:50the
52:51old
52:51doctrine
52:51of
52:51an
52:51eye
52:52for
52:52an
52:52eye
52:52leaves
52:53everybody
52:53blind
52:53and we've
52:55watched that
52:55doctrine
52:55being preached
52:56and practiced
52:57here for 20
52:58years
52:58and it has
53:00left a lot of
53:01blind people
53:01around the
53:02place
53:02it has left
53:03a lot of
53:04dead
53:04people
53:04a lot
53:05of maimed
53:05and injured
53:05people
53:06and it has
53:07left the
53:08problem
53:08more difficult
53:08to solve
53:09three days
53:13later
53:13another funeral
53:14on the
53:14false road
53:15the coffin
53:17this time
53:18was that
53:18of a
53:18young
53:19IRA
53:19man
53:19killed
53:20in the
53:20attack
53:20on
53:20Maraid's
53:21funeral
53:21suddenly
53:24two off-duty
53:25british
53:26corporals
53:26blundered
53:27into the
53:27cortege
53:28the crowd
53:34may have
53:35thought
53:35they were
53:35under
53:36attack
53:36again
53:36one
53:38soldier
53:39had a
53:39gun
53:39but there
53:40would be
53:40no
53:40escape
53:41after a
53:49savage
53:50beating
53:50the
53:51two young
53:51soldiers
53:52were dragged
53:52away
53:53still
54:01struggling
54:01it was
54:02stripped
54:03and shot
54:03dead
54:04to
54:07Maraid
54:07and her
54:08comrades
54:08such
54:09casualties
54:09are an
54:10inevitable
54:10part
54:11of war
54:11we both
54:14recognized
54:14that
54:15the only
54:15solution
54:16to
54:17the
54:17situation
54:18here
54:18was
54:19through
54:19armed
54:19struggle
54:20i'm
54:21sorry
54:21to say
54:21that
54:22if a
54:22mother
54:22has
54:22her
54:23son
54:23coming
54:23home
54:23in a
54:24coffin
54:24she's
54:26not
54:26going
54:26to
54:26let
54:26her
54:26other
54:26son
54:27join
54:27the
54:27british
54:27army
54:28maraid
54:32maraid's
54:32parents
54:32often
54:33visit
54:33the
54:33west
54:34belfast
54:34cemetery
54:35where
54:35the
54:35ira
54:35bury
54:36their
54:36dead
54:36there
54:38is
54:38no
54:38epitaph
54:39on
54:39maraid
54:39ferrell's
54:40grave
54:40to the
54:43people of
54:43the falls
54:43road
54:44she was
54:44a patriot
54:45to the
54:46british
54:46she was
54:47a terrorist
54:48to her
54:49family
54:50she was
54:51a victim
54:51of irish
54:52history
54:52we're here
54:57on Sunday
54:58probably
55:00come again
55:01for the
55:01end
55:02it doesn't
55:04do anything
55:05for me
55:05coming
55:06but
55:06we come
55:07i still
55:12can't
55:13believe
55:13she's
55:13dead
55:14in recent
55:20weeks
55:20a diplomatic
55:21rift
55:21has been
55:22growing
55:22between
55:23britain
55:23and spain
55:24over the
55:24official
55:25version
55:25of what
55:26happened
55:26in gibraltar
55:27at the
55:28coroner's
55:28inquest
55:29which
55:29last
55:30summer
55:30pronounced
55:31the
55:31killings
55:31lawful
55:32the british
55:33defended
55:34their
55:34actions
55:34in part
55:35by saying
55:36that they
55:36had been
55:36surprised
55:37by the
55:38arrival
55:38of the
55:38three
55:39terrorists
55:39because
55:40the
55:40spanish
55:40police
55:41had bungled
55:42their
55:42surveillance
55:42now
55:44spanish
55:44police
55:45officials
55:45are
55:46publicly
55:46contradicting
55:47the
55:47british
55:48version
55:48claiming
55:49they
55:49had
55:50trailed
55:50the
55:50three
55:50successfully
55:51and
55:52had
55:52told
55:52british
55:53security
55:53there
55:54was
55:54probably
55:54no
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56:05thank you
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56:09good night
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