Weren't the provos the cleanest faction involved? I'm pretty sure out of them, the actual British military, and the unionist paramilitaries, the IRA inflicted the lowest percentage of civilian casualties out of all of them.
so one of the things with the IRA is that, they were a decentralised movement. and as much as they have a central command, there is only so much that is directed by higher ups. but, overall, the IRA were absolutely the least shitty with civilian casualties in Ireland. now, they did engage in terrorism in England, but imo like a war is a war :shrug-outta-hecks: expecting people to play nice when fighting for their freedom against fascists is lib shit
I would need to check, but I think the Official IRA would be, seeing as they went on ceasefire in 1972 and mostly fought with Provos and the INLA after that. The estimate seems to be 57 killed by the OIRA, 22 civilians among that (22%). Provos are around 508 (29%). Another source puts that at 644 (36%) though 61 of those are former security forces so IMHO valid targets
Weren't the provos the cleanest faction involved? I'm pretty sure out of them, the actual British military, and the unionist paramilitaries, the IRA inflicted the lowest percentage of civilian casualties out of all of them.
so one of the things with the IRA is that, they were a decentralised movement. and as much as they have a central command, there is only so much that is directed by higher ups. but, overall, the IRA were absolutely the least shitty with civilian casualties in Ireland. now, they did engage in terrorism in England, but imo like a war is a war :shrug-outta-hecks: expecting people to play nice when fighting for their freedom against fascists is lib shit
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The IRA killed more overall people, but the UVF killed more civilians
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I would need to check, but I think the Official IRA would be, seeing as they went on ceasefire in 1972 and mostly fought with Provos and the INLA after that. The estimate seems to be 57 killed by the OIRA, 22 civilians among that (22%). Provos are around 508 (29%). Another source puts that at 644 (36%) though 61 of those are former security forces so IMHO valid targets