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A British tank moves through Strabane, Co Tyrone, in April 1969
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PRESSURE is mounting on the British government to apologise to the family of a disabled man who was shot dead by soldiers during an anti-internment march 50 years ago.
Eamon McDevitt, a 28-year-old deaf man who was also unable to speak, was killed by the Royal Marines in Strabane on August 18 1971.
On Wednesday, his brother Sammy said that the family has been “made to suffer for decades waiting on justice.”
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER
