Questions about the fate of those who vanished during the Troubles and who was responsible will not go away The intention had been to bury for ever some of the Provisional IRA's most uncomfortable secrets: the presence of informers close to the heart of the movement; the traitors who hailed from prominent republican families; the decision to murder a widowed, impoverished mother of 10. There would...
Disappeared but not forgotten: the grim secrets the IRA could not bury
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