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Thirty years on: corporals offered ‘little or no resistance’ as they were driven to their deaths

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8 Mar, 2018
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Thirty years on: corporals offered 'little or no resistance' as they were driven to their deaths
Three days after Michael Stone's murderous gun and grenade attack on mourners at an IRA burial in Belfast, the sheer barbarity witnessed in the slaying of two Army corporals at a subsequent funeral would produce some of the most distressing images of the entire Troubles.
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