Operation Flavius
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| Date | 6 March 1988 |
|---|---|
| Perpetrators | Special Air Service |
| Type | murder |
| Description | Three unarmed members of the Irish Republican Army were shot dead by the SAS. |
Operation Flavius 
Sean Savage, Daniel McCann and Mairead Farrell were shot dead on a street in Gibraltar by the British Army Special Air Service in an operation code-named Operation Flavius.
See Also
- Myrna Reid Grant 'Gibraltar Killings: British Media Ethics' Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 7, 1992.
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Don't Mention the War | book extract | 1994 | David Miller | |
| Document:The British Media and Gibraltar | book extract | 1994 | David Miller | |
| Document:The Political Scientists of Lockerbie - Allen Feraday | blog post | 26 October 2010 | Adam Larson | "Patrick Haseldine’s famously deleted Wikipedia page on Alan Feraday sums up nicely that he 'has appeared as an expert witness at criminal trials leading to convictions in at least four high-profile cases, three of which were subsequently overturned on appeal. The appeal in the fourth case is ongoing'.” |
| File:Damage.pdf | Report | April 1989 | David Miller | Investigation into media treatment of the inquest into the killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988 |
| File:Truthontherock.pdf | report | Glasgow University Media Group | An investigation into the wholesale distortion of news by the corporate media when reporting on the SAS killings of 3 IRA members in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. It is a serious indictment of the British media's handling of the affair and particularly that of The Sunday Times. |
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