Gerillaktioner i Nordirland

Idag hålls som bekant ett intressant föredrag av föreningen Irlandinformation i Stockholm. Vi kan av olika anledningar inte närvara, men vi publicerar här en lista med några av de gerillaaktioner som genomförts i Nordirland sedan 2007. För löpande uppdatering om läget i Nordirland rekomenderar vi våra läsare att regelbundet titta in på Irlandinformations hemsida.

"A list of some of the activities from the Real IRA the last couple of years, from November 2007 to february 2010.
2007
8 November: A PSNI officer was shot and injured by the RIRA as he sat in his car on Bishop Street in Derry.
12 November: A PSNI officer was shot and injured by the RIRA in Dungannon, County Tyrone.

2008
7 February: The RIRA announced that after a three year period of reorganisation it was ready to "go back to war".
14 February: A suspected RIRA member, Andrew Burns, was killed by a small republican organisation, Óglaigh na hÉireann in the Donegal village of Doneyloop.[
12 May: A PSNI officer was injured when the RIRA attached a booby-trap bomb to his car. The bomb exploded as he drove through the village of Spamount, County Tyrone. The officer was pulled to safety by a passing motorist before the car was engulfed in flames.
25 September: A man survived after being shot in the neck by the RIRA on the County Derry-County Donegal border. The same man was targeted in a pipe bomb attack on his home on 25 October, the RIRA did not claim responsibility for the attack, but security forces believe they were responsible for it.

2009
1 February: The RIRA are believed to have been responsible for leaving a 300lb car bomb in Castlewellan, County Down. The device took 5 days to be defused.
7 March: The RIRA carried out an gun attack on Massereene British Army Barracks, County Antrim. Two British soldiers were shot dead and two other soldiers and two civilians were injured.
2 April: The RIRA in Derry claimed responsibility for carrying out a punishment shooting against a convicted rapist who was awaiting sentencing for raping a 15 year old girl.
12 April: The RIRA claimed responsibility for the death of MI5 agent, Denis Donaldson. Donaldson was killed by the RIRA in Glenties, County Donegal in 2006.
13 July: The RIRA was blamed for shooting at the police in the Ardoyne area of Belfast during 3 days of rioting.
28 August: The RIRA staged a roadblock in the village of Meigh, County Armagh. The unit is reported to have had a rocket launcher, assault rifles and a heavy machine-gun (believed to have been stolen from a Provisional IRA arms dump). A PSNI patrol spotted the group, but withdrew fearing that their presence would provoke a gun battle.
21 September: The RIRA claimed it was responsible for two pipe-bomb attacks on the homes of family members of a PSNI officer in Derry. One of the devices exploded and destroyed a car.
8 October: RIRA members fired a volley of shots over the coffin of the RIRA member John Brady, who died in Police Custody.
22 October: The RIRA claimed responsibility for a small I.E.D. explosion at a British Territorial Army base in North Belfast which caused minor damage to the perimeter barrier of the base. There were no injuries.
31 December: The RIRA claimed responsibility for firing a number of shots at Crossmaglen PSNI station, County Armagh.

(There where 40 punishment shootings & 16 punishment beating carried out by republican groups during 2009)

2010
24 January: The RIRA claimed responsibility for firing a number of shots at Crossmaglen PSNI station in County Armagh.
25 January: The RIRA claimed responsibility for shooting dead of a suspected drug dealer in Cork City in the Republic of Ireland.
31 January: The RIRA claimed responsibility for firing shots at a police station in Bessbrook, County Armagh. It is reported that high velocity weapons where used in this attack.
3 February: The RIRA threw a improvised pipe-bomb at Oldpark PSNI station in Belfast. The device exploded causing minor damage to a perimeter fence."