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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]]. | + | [[Sean Savage]], [[Daniel McCann]] and [[Mairead Farrell]] were [[Gibraltar shootings|shot dead on a street in Gibraltar]] by the British Army [[Special Air Service]] in an operation code-named [[Operation Flavius]]. |
==See Also== | ==See Also== |
Revision as of 16:12, 24 February 2015
Date | 6 March 1988 |
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Perpetrators | Special Air Service |
Type | murder |
Description | Three unarmed members of the Irish Republican Army were shot dead by the SAS. |
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 |
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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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