Northern Ireland | Man charged with McCartney murder
Charges have been laid in the Robert McCartney murder, which has been a lightning rod for anti-IRA sentiments in recent months. McCartney's murderers are suspected to be senior IRA members or associates of the IRA.
The IRA offered to shoot the offenders, likely showing the pressure they feel within their own communities, which they effectively police, and where there has sometimes been tacit support of punishment beatings of local criminals.
Mr McCartney was stabbed and beaten to death outside a Belfast bar on January 30 after a row broke out over an allegedly rude gesture made at a woman. His family, who have launched an international campaign for justice, has blamed IRA members and said there were up to 70 witnesses in the bar but many were too frightened of republicans to give evidence.
The IRA has previously stated that after "voluntary admissions by those involved", it knew four men were involved - two were IRA volunteers and two were not - and "the IRA knows the identity of all these men".
The IRA offered to shoot the offenders, likely showing the pressure they feel within their own communities, which they effectively police, and where there has sometimes been tacit support of punishment beatings of local criminals.
Mr McCartney was stabbed and beaten to death outside a Belfast bar on January 30 after a row broke out over an allegedly rude gesture made at a woman. His family, who have launched an international campaign for justice, has blamed IRA members and said there were up to 70 witnesses in the bar but many were too frightened of republicans to give evidence.
The IRA has previously stated that after "voluntary admissions by those involved", it knew four men were involved - two were IRA volunteers and two were not - and "the IRA knows the identity of all these men".
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