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Families of some Troubles victims are afraid to erect memorials where their loved ones died due to a fear of vandalism.

The memorial to a 1971 IRA killing of three Scottish soldiers in Belfast has been "brutally" attacked on what is the 50th anniversary of the atrocity. The memorial, in the Squires Hill area of north Belfast, was placed in memory of three members of the Royal Highland Fusilliers who were killed by the IRA on 10 March 1971. On Wednesday morning the site was pictured having been engulfed by rubbish, which had was believed to have been dumped overnight to coincide with the landmark date. Local DUP ...

Sinn Fein, as well as the SDLP, do not want to commemorate the centenary of Northern Ireland. Instead, in 2021 Sinn Fein will probably look back 50 years to commemorate the introduction of internment in 1971 and, indeed, 1971 was a particularly important year in Ulster. After the emergence of the Provisional IRA in December 1969, they spent much of 1970 on consolidation. That year, 29 people were killed and 19 of the deaths were the result of actions by republicans. The consolidation of 1970 pa...