My post of last night has caused some upset, from people who say that I have forgotten the others that were killed by the IRA on that day in 1979. I would like to reassure you all that I have not forgotten them but was trying to point out the callousness with which the BBC invited Gerry Adams to comment on the Queen's upcoming visit to Ireland.
In case you are unaware of what happened on that day in 1979 this might help. The Provisional IRA blew up the boat on which Lord Mountbatten was sailing; killed on that day were Lord Mountbatten, Nicholas Knatchbull (his nephew) and 15-year old crew member Paul Maxwell. Baroness Brabourne">Baroness Brabourne, Lord Mountbatten's elder daughter's 83-year-old mother-in-law was seriously injured in the explosion and died from her injuries the following day. Also seriously injured in the explosion but who survived were Nicholas Knatchbull's mother and father and his twin brother Timothy.
On the same day that the IRA murdered Lord Mountbatten, the IRA also ambushed and killed eighteen British soldiers, sixteen of them from the Parachute Regiment at Warrenpoint in what became known as the Warrenpoint ambush.
So 21 people not just one died on the 27th August 1979, a bloody day that the BBC choose not to remember, unlike Bloody Sunday which they v=can barely leave alone.
The BBC's interviewing of Gerry Adams re the upcoming visit of the Queen to Ireland is thrown into even starker relief by this quote I found on Wikipedia; it's what Gerry Adams reportedly said of Lord Mountbatten's death:
The BBC have managed to excel themselves over this choice of interviewee, not that I think they feel any shame. I would lodge a formal complaint but what is the point?
In case you are unaware of what happened on that day in 1979 this might help. The Provisional IRA blew up the boat on which Lord Mountbatten was sailing; killed on that day were Lord Mountbatten, Nicholas Knatchbull (his nephew) and 15-year old crew member Paul Maxwell. Baroness Brabourne">Baroness Brabourne, Lord Mountbatten's elder daughter's 83-year-old mother-in-law was seriously injured in the explosion and died from her injuries the following day. Also seriously injured in the explosion but who survived were Nicholas Knatchbull's mother and father and his twin brother Timothy.
On the same day that the IRA murdered Lord Mountbatten, the IRA also ambushed and killed eighteen British soldiers, sixteen of them from the Parachute Regiment at Warrenpoint in what became known as the Warrenpoint ambush.
So 21 people not just one died on the 27th August 1979, a bloody day that the BBC choose not to remember, unlike Bloody Sunday which they v=can barely leave alone.
The BBC's interviewing of Gerry Adams re the upcoming visit of the Queen to Ireland is thrown into even starker relief by this quote I found on Wikipedia; it's what Gerry Adams reportedly said of Lord Mountbatten's death:
'The IRA gave clear reasons for the execution. I think it is unfortunate that anyone has to be killed, but the furore created by Mountbatten's death showed up the hypocritical attitude of the media establishment. As a member of the House of Lords, Mountbatten was an emotional figure in both British and Irish politics. What the IRA did to him is what Mountbatten had been doing all his life to other people; and with his war record I don't think he could have objected to dying in what was clearly a war situation. He knew the danger involved in coming to this country. In my opinion, the IRA achieved its objective: people started paying attention to what was happening in Ireland.'
The BBC have managed to excel themselves over this choice of interviewee, not that I think they feel any shame. I would lodge a formal complaint but what is the point?
1 comment:
i think you'll find there were other reasons Ludwig Von Battenberg was assassinated, and with the charging of Ben Herman a close friend of his, I think the truth may well come out sooner than later.
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