The Troubles in Cappagh

The Troubles in Cappagh

The Troubles in Cappagh recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Incidents in Cappagh during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:

1981
*7 September 1981 - Mark Evans (20) and John Montgomery (19), both Protestant members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their mobile patrol, near Cappagh.1991
*3 March 1991 - The "Capagh killings". John Quinn (23), Dwayne O'Donnell (17), Malcolm Nugent (20), all members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and Thomas Armstrong (50), a civilian, all Catholics, were shot dead by the Ulster Volunteer Force in the car park next to Boyle's Bar, Cappagh. [ [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/ NI Conflict Archive on the Internet] ] According to nationalist sources, Billy Wright the leader of the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade was involved in the killings. [ [http://republican-news.org/archive/2001/November29/30ohag.html Collusion link to journalist's killing, An Phoblacht] ]

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