The corporals killings is the name commonly given to the Irish Republican Army's execution/murder of two British army personnel, corporals David Howes and Derek Wood, on March 19, 1988. Jump to: navigation, search The West Cork Flying Column during the War of Independence. ... Jump to: navigation, search The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Jump to: navigation, search Corporal is a military rank (equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4) in use by several militaries of the world. ... Jump to: navigation, search March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The two men blundered into a funeral for an IRA member in a car. Those at the funeral concluded that the corporals may be Loyalistparamilitaries about to kill them as Michael Stone had done not long previously. Jump to: navigation, search In general, a loyalist is an individual who is loyal to the powers that be. ... Jump to: navigation, search A paramilitary organization is a group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion. ...
The crowd surrounded the car, pulled the two men from it and they were then taken to some waste ground where they were killed.
The event caused a huge impact, not least because the scenes of the two soldiers' car being surrounded, the crowd dragging them from the car and beating them were televised.
The corporalskillings is the name commonly given to the Irish Republican Army's execution/murder of two British army personnel, corporals David Howes and Derek Wood, on March 19, 1988.
Those at the funeral concluded that the corporals may be Loyalistparamilitaries about to kill them as Michael Stone had done not long previously.
The event caused a huge impact, not least because the scenes of the two soldiers' car being surrounded, the crowd dragging them from the car and beating them were televised.
Six members of the CTI were killed during the year in various parts of the country; paramilitary forces were suspected of responsibility in two of these killings; in the others the responsible group had not been identified at year's end.
The CCJ reported that guerrillas were responsible for 458 political killings in the period from June 2000 to June 2001, the most recent period for which figures are available, compared with 236 political killings in the period from October 1999 through March 2000.
The ELN is suspected of involvement in the February 6 killing of nine farmers in the La Cristalina community, in Santander department (Magdalena Medio region).
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