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Workshop exploring the links between the disastrous implementation of lethal counterinsurgency policies during the ‘Troubles’ in the North of Ireland and similar policies in other ‘colonies’. The Imperial Boomerang is a reference to how methods of repression acceptable in Ireland, Cyprus, Kenya etc eventually come home to roost. Juryless trials, anonymity for Met Firearms officers, the abolition of the right to silence and criminalisation/proscription all were rolled out in Ireland in the 70s and 80s. Every single senior military Commander in Belfast in the 70s had ‘served’ in other colonial conflicts as had senior police officers. Bloody Sunday (Derry 1972) had its roots in other atrocities.
The Pat Finucane Centre provides advocacy support to several hundred families bereaved due to the conflict from offices in Derry, Belfast and Armagh.
