To step back a bit and consider the morals of executing collaborators in a war - I made the point that's there no justification for doing such things - but there probably is a deep rooted feeling inside me that if she was indeed a collaborator then there may have been a certain amount of justification (of course there's less justification if she wasn't - 'less', because that then goes down as an 'administrative mistake' in an otherwise morally justifiable policy? ).
Just ask yourself would you have tried to justify the execution of people who actively helped the IRA kill members of your unit - or even worse, imagine it was a member of your unit who gave information to the IRA which lead to the killing of other members of your unit? I imagine you wouldn't feel very sorry for that person if they met a violent end - they'd be a traitor to their own kind, and they would have deserved it.
Tribal solidarity is a powerful force in human affairs, and I think hatred of supposed collaborators is probably quite an innate thing in us all.
But the problem is Mick there is absolutely no evidence of her being a
collaborator, her crime was that she crossed someone connected to the IRA and as has happened many times before that was enough to see her murdered.
The allegations of her being a tout/grass were made by the same people who told her kids she had run off with a soldier. That as we know was a big fat lie, so ask yourself, what possible information could she have had that would have been of any use to the Security Forces? They have even alleged that she had a "Transmitter" in her house which she used to contact the Security Forces, if that's the case then the IRA must have been absolute ******s and their security of information an utter joke if a widow living in a squalid house with 10 kids was a threat to them.
I do not for one minute believe she was an informer, no one with any sense would, but as we know the IRA seldom if ever admit to mistakes or accept blame on their part.
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