At 15:29 19-4-02 +1000, Brett Coster wrote: >Examples: >The IRA (since about 1922) and Ulster Nationalists (since about 1970) had >each been planting bombs in civilian areas as a means of their insurrgency. >Random civilians were assassinated or horribly injured (good old kneecapping >for starters).
Actually, kneecapping was not used by the IRA against random civilians, but against IRA members who acted, err, "less than loyal" towards the IRA (like members who became informants for the British). Kneecapping someone (thus crippling that person for life) was the IRA's way to warn that person that such behaviour would not be tolerated. I leave it to the reader to imagine what the punishment would be for repeat offenders... Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
