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Operation Flavius
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.

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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.

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
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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 ==See Also==
-*[[File:Truthontherock.pdf]] - David Miller and Dave Maguire, (1988) 'Truth on the Rock]'.
-*[[File:Damage.pdf]] - David Miller (1989) The Damage Was Done
-*[[Document:Don't Mention the War|British media coverage of the Gibralter killings]] extract from David Miller ''Don't Mention the War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media'', London: Pluto Press, 1994, p. 42-50
 * Myrna Reid Grant '[http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=KqQVxpv1fyk9FyBkp5BDnpmYR4CxWsVQ0MsFSbnhQJDjPmqC898y!-1845046985!-950397748?docId=95224366 Gibraltar Killings: British Media Ethics]' ''Journal of Mass Media Ethics'', Vol. 7, 1992.
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