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The lawsuit claimed that Kitson was "liable personally for negligence and misfeasance in public office" due to the fact that he was supposedly "reckless as to whether state agents would be involved in murder". We get mawkish empire sentimentalism, and our reporters rarely examine the fact that we’ve become the world centre for mercenary companies, nor think about how that influences our politics. At the Saville Enquiry Kitson’s memory of events was poor, but he was sure that there was no insurgency when he arrived in Belfast in late 1970. We still don’t know the truth of these cases, and Kitson denies any knowledge of the death of Patrick Heenan. This consisted of covert units liaising with local “proxies” to carry out deniable murders and foment internal dissent within republican paramilitary groups – along with mass screenings of the “suspect community”.

Therefore, this legal action taken against Kitson creates a precedent of accountability and liability in civil proceedings that has never been utilized in previous conflicts. One of the units under his command, 1 Para, was nicknamed ‘Kitson’s private army’ and had a reputation even in the British Army for being thuggish, but its role in the killing and wounding of a large number of civilians in Ballymurphy in July 1971 and Derry’s Bloody Sunday in January 1972 earned it even official British condemnation for being ‘reckless’ and ‘out of control’.When Frank Kitson arrived in Northern Ireland during the early days of The Troubles he had already established himself as a highly respected officer, especially in the fields of counter-insurgency and peacekeeping. Moreover, the law would be ‘little more than a propaganda cover for the disposal of unwanted members of the public’.

The establishment of this new precedent speaks to the complex legal boundaries that accompany and define a conflict as nuanced and intimate as The Troubles, especially in the aftermath. Boris Johnson and Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi visit the Westbury-on-Trym Church of England Academy in Bristol.

During Britain’s brutal war in Malaysia – waged in part so that Clement Attlee’s government could continue to plunder the country’s rubber, despite a famine, to fund Britain’s post-war reconstruction – half a million Malaysians were forced into concentration camps through a process known as ‘villagisation’.

Sent Kitson’s ‘Private Army’ – Support Company of 1 Para - to Derry where they perpetrated the Bloody Sunday massacre.Shortly after this visit to Northern Ireland, Bahrain’s Ministry for the Interior managed to locate him. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Half a million Malaysians were forced into concentration camps through a process known as ‘villagisation,’ designed, as in the Boer War, to prevent the guerrillas gaining food. J. Hughes, ‘State violence in the origins of nationalism: British counterinsurgency and the rebirth of Irish nationalism, 1969–1972’, in J.