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- Subject: Shoot-to-Kill in Belfast
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 16:22:47 GMT
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- subject: Shoot-to-Kill in Belfast
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- from: ECN London
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- 5 December 1992
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- SHOOT-TO-KILL IN BELFAST
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- A young Irish republican was shot dead by police in Belfast on Wednesday
- 25th November in what seems to have been a pre-planned shoot-to-kill
- operation. 22 year old Pearse Jordan was driving along the Falls Road when
- his car was rammed and forced onto the pavement by two cars. As he
- stumbled from the car he was shot in the back three times with a Heckler
- and Koch rifle, by an undercover member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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- Pearse Jordan, who was an IRA volunteer, was unarmed and had made no
- attempt to run away when he got out of the car.
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- As usually happens in such cases, the RUC immediately launched a
- propaganda offensive to hide the true facts of the killing. For instance it was
- initially reported that the shooting was connected with the discovery of a
- bomb-making factory in a nearby house. In fact, the house that was raided
- was over half a mile way, and nothing was found in the house or at any
- other building that night.
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- After Pearse's murder, local people held a candle-lit vigil at the scene.
- Thousands of people attended Pearse Jordan's funeral, resisting attempts by
- the RUC to intimidate them. At one point, women mourners prevented an
- RUC armoured car from driving through the funeral cortege.
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