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Beyond Collusion: The UK
Security Forces and the Murder of Patrick Finucane |
 This report examines allegations of state involvement in the
murder of Patrick Finucane, a prominent Belfast human rights lawyer who was
murdered on February 12, 1989.
In this report, we piece together the evidence of
state involvement that has emerged gradually in the 13 years since Finucane was
murdered.
We also present new allegations of security force
involvement in the killing and subsequent cover-ups. With this report, we hope
to force the UK government, by the weight of evidence, to finally carry out a
public inquiry into Patrick Finucane's murder.
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Killing Finucane, Justin O'Brien |
 Killing Finucane tells the story
of Britain's dirty war from the start of the conflict and through the 1980s and
90s. It tells of how Special Branch corrupted the RUC, stymied the Finucane
murder hunt while recruiting his killer as an agent, and perverted the course of
justice by lying to the Stevens inquiry. These abuses were official government
policy.
O'Brien demonstrates that MI5 controlled the entire
security environment, including Special Branch, and covered its tracks by a
deliberate policy of scapegoating alleged 'rogue operators'.
In exposing the reality behind the dirty war in the
north of Ireland, Killing Finucane serves as a warning about the corrupting
tendencies of an unaccountable security apparatus. It tells of how agents
involved in the killing were protected rather than prosecuted, and reveals why
this was allowed to happen.
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Unfinished Business: State
Killings and the Quest for Truth, Bill Rolston |
 In this book 30 people
tell their stories of battling with the authorities to establish the truth about
state killings.
They describe how they took up the fight, often
unwillingly and in circumstances of great pain and sadness.
Here are the testimonies of ordinary people who
became extraordinary champions of human rights, challenging the might of the
state and sometimes succeeding. For the majority, however, the fight goes on.
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The Committee: Political
Assassination in Northern Ireland, Sean McPhilemy |
 An attempt to expose corruption and prejudice within the ranks
of the old unionist establishment in Ireland.
McPhilemy maintains that a secret committee of 60
members of the unionist regime controlled the Royal Ulster Constabulary and
allowed violence against Catholics and Irish nationalists to be fomented with
impunity.
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A Very British Jihad, Paul
Larkin |
 In April 2003, the
Stevens Report provided the first official acknowledgement of collusion between
loyalist armed groups and British security forces in the murders of nationalists
in the north of Ireland.
Yet, as this book demonstrates,
such collusion and associated conspiracies have been a central feature of the
British response to the conflict in Ireland for more than thirty years.
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State Violence, Raymond Murray |
 In State Violence the author chronicles the abuse by the
British State of emergency laws; harassment and intimidation of civilians;
injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between
British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries;
unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and
degrading strip-searching in prisons - abuses ignored by all but a handful of
individuals and civil rights organisations.
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The SAS in Ireland, Raymond
Murray |
 This
book traces the history of the British Army Special Air Service Regiment, the
SAS, in Ireland over the past twenty years.
It details their activities – intelligence
gathering and surveillance, their links with British intelligence, notably MI5
and MI6, their connection with sectarian murders and many other deaths.
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