Aidan McAnespie Killing by a British Soldier 28/3/22 | The Troubles

News Bulletin : Aidan McAnespie Killing by British Soldier 28/3/22
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[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

As a former soldier, the way this killing happened sounds like a deliberate shooting. Hitting a man-sized target with 3 round burst from an FN MAG machine gun is no easy shot at 300 Meters, even if the bullet ricocheted. I can say as a subject matter expert this was clearly deliberate.

[@Matt-Durham]

The soldier should have been prosecuted long ago, the soldier high fived and was laughing and cheering after the shooting, with a ginger haired RUC PC after the shots were fired. I've read the postmortem of AM, and many witness statements that support this, AM was often beaten, harassed, verbally assaulted and even strangled by many soldiers at the checkpoint. One soldier stated to a family member of AM's that he "had a bullet in his gun with AM's name on it". A another case of pure murder by forces of the crown during the Troubles.

[@teslagirl1]

I agree. My great aunt's husband was a victim of the crown's soldiers, back when she was a young wife, heavy with child. They killed him and beat her young brother, a 13 year old child with learning difficulties, to within an inch of his life...because they thought(or claimed to think) both were IRA or IRA supporters. She took her brother and fled to America with the help of her husband's friends and the support of family who were here, convinced that if she stayed in Ireland that they would come for them both. And they might have...she was a witness, and the boy(nearly nonverbal) was evidence.

[@Matt-Durham]

@@teslagirl1 thanks for the reply, yes I get a lot of messages and comments about this exact type of behaviour that occurred by the army and RUC. If you really want to know how much they tortured suspects you should look into Castlereigh interrogation centre, the top floor was where they did most of the torture and the prison cells. Also the top floor is now an office block for admin workers etc.

[@teslagirl1]

@@Matt-Durham I know. My family background meant that I was always going to be interested...the Irish half of my family hailed from Donegal(the other half is Cherokee) and relationships between family in Ireland and family here were always maintained, often very close. We were still family, no matter the distance. So I've talked with family members a lot and read extensively. We make our history part of our upbringing in my family. A cousin who was born in Alabama was named after Joseph Mary Plunkett...and he pugnaciously INSISTED on the whole name being used in roll call at school. Yeah, other boys picked on him and he got beat up pretty bad sometimes but even when he lost, he made his foes KNOW they had been in a fight. One boy who later became his friend was asked by his dad if he got the license number of the truck that hit him...Joe Mary, though much smaller, had done that much damage. The two former enemies are still friends. That's my family...we know our history but we don't hold grudges against anyone who treats us with respect.

[@teslagirl1]

To the soldier who killed this unarmed young man, he was a potential enemy who might be IRA. Or was he really...or ever? One can't tell by merely looking, and so we can only assume it was a question of "shoot first, confirm later, have excuse ready"...hate makes that kind of mental gymnastics easy for some. Maybe he simply told himself that the young man was "potentially IRA"...if not now, maybe someday, so he could think of this murder as a preemptive strike. To "save lives" and make his cowardly act seem brave. It's crap reasoning but soldiers or cops who shoot unarmed civilians usually cook up an excuse of some kind...they know how it looks. Even those who killed because they were scared of their own shadow and those who just like the thrill of killing KNOW how it looks...excuses and lies are second nature to them. For the soldier's superiors, this was a mistake that could make them all look bad, an inquiry needing to be stage managed. Ditto for the politicians. But to the mother who once gazed with wonder upon the baby she had carried inside her for nine months, the baby she brought forth with her sweat and blood and pain, feeling the infant worth every drop of it...well, the dead man was and is her beloved child. Every mother in Ireland would have felt her pain and every one who had lost their own child at any age to a bullet fired in hate would have wept and keened with her. A few would have howled like wounded animals, the pain would have run that deep. Even mothers who had not yet lost a child would have hurt...and feared. It touches something deep within the spirit of a woman, where love and nurture and hope for the future reside. It is that common bond of motherhood, soul deep, that once led Maired Corrigan and Betty Williams to cross the road and join hands, to take a stand together against hate and violence and to work toward something better. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is go up to a stranger and make them your friend, to look past all that divides you straight to the heart of your common ground. We humans are at our very best when we do that. What if we all dropped our prejudices and our guns and said, "here is my hand, take it and let's get to work together building rather than tearing down"...what if we thought about the past and it led us to a future worth having, worth all the work it takes to get there?

[@user-fy6xv6xw7n]

"our revenge will be the laughter of our children" Bobby Sands MP (RIP)

[@lizliz7075]

Its not over 'till it's over TAL32

[@CashelOConnolly]

November 26th 2022 JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE🇮🇪

[@rambojp73]

Thought you were neutral? Now I know your Pro British!! 🤣😝

[@alanthomas2235]

witch hunt

[@eoinmcgowan]

Lol 😆

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

He shot an unarmed man who was making no aggressive movement whatsoever. This was completely unjustified

[@ernestdunican5878]

Murder

[@CashelOConnolly]

November 26th 2022 JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE🇮🇪

[@ernestdunican5878]

Don't ever do that again