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
- File:Truthontherock.pdf - David Miller and Dave Maguire, (1988) 'Truth on the Rock]'.
- File:Damage.pdf - David Miller (1989) The Damage Was Done
- 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 '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 | |
| 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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