The British Army intimidated many Irish people throughout the conflict and seemingly, according to eyewitnesses, took great pleasure in doing so!
That would appear to be a sweeping view of a hugely complex issue, with feelings running and bred into generation after generation. The Army should. in an ideal world never be called into a police situation. To quote a line from a TV series a while ago:
“There’s a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
For every claim of a soldier taking pleasure in intimidation, there is a republican act of violence and cruelty. The truth will never come out, there are probably two many truths to count.
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