RUC shoot-to-kill inquiry

Title

RUC shoot-to-kill inquiry

Genre

Interview

TX Date

25 Jan 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:01:25

Description

2 linked clips. 1. Ken Livingstone comments on the killing of unarmed men by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland. He has pledged to do what he can to help the truth come out and says the RUC is corrupt. Follows him being banned from the Commons for comments on the Stalker inquiry into the supposed shoot-to-kill policy of the RUC.2. Kevin McNamara, Labour’s Northern Ireland spokesman, condemns the comments by Livingstone.

Contributors

Ken Livingstone; Kevin McNamara

Keywords

Deaths; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Police; UK; Corruption; Policing practice; State security; RUC

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