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Meaning, Kitson is being sued because of the policies he implemented in Northern Ireland as part of his counter-insurgent operation (“Ex-chief”). Heenan had initiated over the killing of her husband, arguing that this development was ‘as much of a threat to Britain’s fighting capacity as would be a failure to meet NATO budgetary targets, and it risks putting the special relationship under increasing strain … The extent to which those who served decades ago in Northern Ireland, including the highly distinguished soldier-scholar General Sir Frank Kitson, remain exposed to legal risk is striking and appalling. The psychology underlying the treatment prescribed by Ian Henderson for the recruits for the pseudo-gangs… was to trump the fear of betrayal by an even more powerful fear of instant death by hanging. In the context of The Troubles, this can clearly be seen through the use of the “five techniques” and the threat of legal punishment for being associated with the IRA, both of which Keefe discusses.

These killings were part of a ruthless dirty war that commenced in 1970 when Brigadier Frank Kitson, a counter-insurgency specialist, was sent to Northern Ireland. She was previously an advocacy case worker at the Pat Finucane Centre, a non-party political, anti-sectarian human rights group advocating a non-violent resolution of the conflict in Ireland. Kitson wrote widely on gangs, counter-gangs and measures of deception, the use of defectors, and concepts such as pseudo-gangs and pseudo-operations.During this period, Kitson introduced a variety of tactics and strategies aimed at gathering intelligence. The then Tory government grasped matters were spiralling out of control and pulled back from Kitson’s methods, which were seen to act as a recruitment officer for the IRA. In the 1920s, the UK founded the Bahraini police force, and the island remained a British protectorate until 15 August 1971 – six months before Bloody Sunday. He was promoted major on 15 December 1960, [8] brevet lieutenant-colonel on 1 July 1964, [9] and to the substantive rank on 31 December 1966. In April last year, 47 years after the UK left its original HMS Juffair base in Bahrain, Britain opened a new naval base in the country.

Our families are dealing with the legacy of his war crimes to this day and we will be dealing with them for many years to come. The disastrous replication of many of these parameters by American and British troops in dealing with the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan indicates that militaries have learned little from their past failures.This should be a chance to talk about the tragic fact that the events in Derry that day weren’t nearly as unusual as we like to think. The UK’s biggest corporation, Shell, owns 34% of Oman’s state oil company – with 60% owned by the government. This consisted of covert units liaising with local “proxies” to carry out deniable murders and foment internal dissent within republican paramilitary groups – along with mass screenings of the “suspect community”. Deception and Lies In May of 1970, two government ministers were dismissed from Cabinet for allegedly purchasing guns for the IRA.