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On the 5 January 1976, not far from the village of Bessbrook, South Armagh, one of the Provisional IRA's most cowardly murderous attacks occurred when a van load of workmen was stopped on a lonely country road and ten Protestant men machined-gunned to death. They were:
Robert Walker, Joseph Lemmon, Reginald Chapman, Walter Chapman, Kenneth Worton, James McWhirter, Robert Chambers, John McConville, John Bryans, and Robert Freeburn.
Only two men survived this massacre - the only Roman Catholic on the van and one Protestant who, despite being shot eighteen times lived.
Upwards of twelve PIRA men took part in the actual shooting with several more involved. To date no one has been brought to account. This is despite the fact that the names of the PIRA who carried out the murders are well known to the security forces, politicians and the local South Armagh public.
Several years ago Rev Ian Paisley under Parliamentary privilege named twenty of those murderers at Westminster. They included: Eugene Reavey, Peter McCann, Thomas McVerry and Michael McKevitt to name but as few and all from the Whitecross, South Armagh area. There is also growing evidence that this attack was carried out with the aid of the Irish Garda; presumably aiding the murderers escape across the border.
To date, despite a promise by Bertie Ahem to David Trimble that the Irish government would carry out an investigation into Garda/PIRA collusion, nothing has happened. This attitude by the Irish is in stark contrast when it comes to alleged Loyalist/Security Force collusion!
The Kingsmill Memorial
It is extremely unlikely that after all these years that anyone will be brought to justice. These ten victims do not have the Irish Government, the American government, or Amnesty Interntional, baying on their behalf.........they were only working class Protestants after all.
The PIRA murders still roam free and unmolested through South Armagh smiling and laughing with the blood of innocents dripping off their hands. One can only hope if no justice, of whatever nature, is forthcoming in this life, then may they rot in hell in the next
Robert Walker, Joseph Lemmon, Reginald Chapman, Walter Chapman, Kenneth Worton, James McWhirter, Robert Chambers, John McConville, John Bryans, and Robert Freeburn.
Only two men survived this massacre - the only Roman Catholic on the van and one Protestant who, despite being shot eighteen times lived.
Upwards of twelve PIRA men took part in the actual shooting with several more involved. To date no one has been brought to account. This is despite the fact that the names of the PIRA who carried out the murders are well known to the security forces, politicians and the local South Armagh public.
Several years ago Rev Ian Paisley under Parliamentary privilege named twenty of those murderers at Westminster. They included: Eugene Reavey, Peter McCann, Thomas McVerry and Michael McKevitt to name but as few and all from the Whitecross, South Armagh area. There is also growing evidence that this attack was carried out with the aid of the Irish Garda; presumably aiding the murderers escape across the border.
To date, despite a promise by Bertie Ahem to David Trimble that the Irish government would carry out an investigation into Garda/PIRA collusion, nothing has happened. This attitude by the Irish is in stark contrast when it comes to alleged Loyalist/Security Force collusion!
The Kingsmill Memorial
It is extremely unlikely that after all these years that anyone will be brought to justice. These ten victims do not have the Irish Government, the American government, or Amnesty Interntional, baying on their behalf.........they were only working class Protestants after all.
The PIRA murders still roam free and unmolested through South Armagh smiling and laughing with the blood of innocents dripping off their hands. One can only hope if no justice, of whatever nature, is forthcoming in this life, then may they rot in hell in the next