Collusion - The IRA Against the British Army
(2016, original release: 2015)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
1231421
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

In Process Record

A groundbreaking documentary exposing the extent of collusion between Loyalist paramilitaries and the British security forces in Northern Ireland during ’the Troubles’.. Supported by archive evidence and interviews with senior Irish and British officials of the period, this film reveals that the British Army decided early on to concentrate its efforts on “destroying” the Provisional IRA.. Such was the extent of collusion in the eighties, that a Special Branch officer tipped off paramilitaries about an informer. It could easily have led to the man’s murder. Even as late as 2003, six years after the Good Friday Agreement, when a former Police Ombudsman began to investigate new murders involving collusion, senior British Government officials tried to put pressure on the investigation. It eventually uncovered truly shocking levels of collusion between police officers and paramilitary killers.. The film will also reveal that a new collusion investigation has been launched into 19 other linked killings and a former British security minister admits that the scale of collusion was much greater than he imagined

Title from title frames

Film

Originally produced by Java Films in 2015

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

Additional Credits