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Kitson had spent decades in Britain’s colonies refining old, and developing new, techniques which he applied in Northern Ireland.

The first two constitute the target proper, that is to say the Party or Front and its cells and committees on the one hand, and the armed groups who are supporting them and being supported by them on the other. 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.Meaning, Kitson is being sued because of the policies he implemented in Northern Ireland as part of his counter-insurgent operation (“Ex-chief”).

As early as 1972, Kitson’s fame in Belfast was such that the now defunct This Week (describing itself as “Ireland’s Quality News Magazine”) featured a broadly smiling Kitson on its front cover, with the headline “Kitson’s War Against The IRA” and a seven-page inside feature. Instead, in keeping with the title, he wrote a fifth part summarizing his conclusions in all the zones he had fought in.Conceivably it might be necessary to kill the fish by polluting the water, but this is unlikely to be a desirable course of action. The story ends with the announcement yesterday that one soldier, Soldier F, has been charged with the murder of James Wray and William McKinney; and for the attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahone and Patrick O’Donnell on Sunday 30 January 1972. In his obituary in The Times, which reported that he died on January 2, it read that "no general in recent times has provoked more intense and sustained controversy". J. Hughes, ‘State violence in the origins of nationalism: British counterinsurgency and the rebirth of Irish nationalism, 1969–1972’, in J. On 15 February 1972, Frank Kitson was knighted by the Queen for ‘gallant and distinguished’ service in Northern Ireland.

The MRF not only murdered suspects and unarmed Catholic civilians but also colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in a campaign of sectarian murder of innocent Catholics. In the course of his service he spent many years with armoured formations in Germany, culminating in command of an armour In March 1972 a right-wing Tory MP, Philip Goodhart, told the House of Commons that he was delighted that Brigadier Kitson was in Belfast because this was ‘very much a case of the right man being in the right job at the right time. Photo: Andrew Parsons - No 10 Downing Street / Flickr / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY-NC-ND 2. The following year, a Catholic joiner named Patrick Heenan was driving his colleagues to a job when a British-army-issue hand grenade was thrown into their minibus.

We still don’t know the truth of these cases, and Kitson denies any knowledge of the death of Patrick Heenan. million Kenyans were confined to a network of detention camps and heavily patrolled villages, as documented by the historian Caroline Elkins in her Pulitzer-winning ‘ Britain’s Gulag’. Ciarán MacAirt, grandson of Kathleen Irvine who was killed in the attack, said the legacy of Kitson during the Troubles will live on for victims. In 1973, a Catholic joiner named Patrick Heenan was driving his workmates to a construction site, when a British-army-issue hand grenade was thrown into their minibus.