Mc. Conville son relives IRA ordeal. Jean Mc. Conville's IRA killers tried to silence her son days after she vanished, it has been revealed. They were putting a gun to my head.
That man is now the head of Sinn Fein. It was given on the condition that nothing would be published until after his death. Old Bailey bomber Dolours Price, who died earlier this year, also alleged Mr Adams had been her IRA Officer Commanding during the early 1. Mrs Mc. Conville. The widow's remains were recovered at Shelling Beach, Co Louth in August 2. Forensic tests revealed she had been badly beaten and shot in the back of the head. The discovery was made by a member of the public and is part of a live police investigation. To bring her down to a beach with her hands tied behind her back and to put a gun to the back of her head and shoot her - that's an execution. That was a war crime and the people responsible should be brought to The Hague. His three- hour ordeal at the hands of the IRA's youth wing was a warning to stay silent. That they would shoot me or shoot a member of the family. Separate teams of IRA volunteers were organised to drive her south of the Irish border; kill her and to dig the grave. Lies that she had been an informer who revealed the location of a gun or had stashed army transmitters were circulated by the IRA murder gang. Claims that she had helped an injured British soldier were also spread among the staunchly republican community and her orphans were shunned. Mr Mc. Conville said: . We were just shunned to the side. Older people and younger people were saying that she had been seen with UDA men on the Shankill Road or had been seen in other places. It was all lies and that went on till about the 8. Having seen at first hand the brutality of these people I knew that my mother was killed and that she wouldn't be coming back. The sister of a teenager abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA has revealed how she is haunted by an image of him standing over his shallow grave. Dympna Kerr, 6. 0, cannot bring herself to visit the Co Monaghan bog where the body of her younger brother Columba Mc. Veigh is believed to have been hidden in 1. ICRC envoy records Iranian diplomat's ordeal User Rating: / 1 Poor Best Articles - Discrimination against Shia Tehran, April 11, IRNA Head of the International Committee Red Cross (ICRC) office in Iran and Iraq's Ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Majid visited. Homa Hoodfar merely wanted to escape Montreal’s cold weather and visit friends and family. Instead, the 65-year-old Concordia university professor found herself in a three-month nightmare, held in Iran’s infamous Evin prison, not sure when, or if, she would ever get out. Choking back tears she said: . His mother Vera, who had vehemently denied IRA allegations that he was an informer, died in May 2. Mrs Kerr, now a mother of four, said: . To think of what my mum and dad went through for all those years. My dad died not knowing that Columba was dead and, for years, my mother bought birthday presents and Christmas presents for him and put them in the wardrobe to keep in case he came back. You get your hopes up and then when they don't find him it is like someone has died all over again. But, you bury them; you grieve for them; and you have a grave to visit so there is a healing process. With Columba there is none of that. And, why did I say he was dead? Because he needed my mum too much, he couldn't have stayed away. He depended on my mother too much. And, maybe those who were responsible didn't have any children either. But, now they may have children or grandchildren now and realise the impact that his death has had. I hope that by speaking out it might prick someone's conscience to give us that final piece of information that we need. Their identity is of no importance to us. All we want is to take him home. His name is already on the headstone.
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