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    The 1994 Shankill Road killings took place on 16 June 1994 when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot dead three Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)...
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  • The Shankill Road bombing was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 23 October 1993 and is one of the most well-known incidents...
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    Unionist Party, killing a UVF commander Trevor King. See: 1994 Shankill Road killings The Shankill Road begins at Peter's Hill, a road that flows from...
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    carried out by the INLA include the Droppin Well bombing, the 1994 Shankill Road killings and the assassinations of Airey Neave in 1979 and Billy Wright...
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  • The Shankill Butchers were an Ulster loyalist paramilitary gang – many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) – that was active between...
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    with Somerville after he had opposed the 1994 ceasefire. In January 2015, he was found dead in his Shankill Road flat. Aged 70, he died of cancer of the...
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  • Charlie Haughey all condemned the killings. The British prime minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher, called the killings "an act of appalling savagery"...
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    The Darkley killings or Darkley massacre was a gun attack carried out on 20 November 1983 near the village of Darkley in County Armagh, Northern Ireland...
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  • staying with his grandmother in Rasharkin at the time of the attack. The killings took place at the height of the stand-off over the Orange Order march at...
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    On 16 June 1994, just before the ceasefires, the Irish National Liberation Army killed three UVF members in a gun attack on the Shankill Road. In revenge...
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