[olliej]

What? They absolutely did bomb a school bus, with kids (protestant and catholic) on it at the time: https://apnews.com/article/49117d7cbfe3b351f61290b53ad3e34f

I'm sorry I screwed up, it was a polytechnic I was thinking of rather than a library: http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/00168003...

I'm also unsure how they were minimizing civilian casualties when the blew up multiple pubs and apartment stores in the UK.

That said I'll cop to being unreasonable and biased in my first comment, I did disregard the violence committed by the RUC. I was reflexively responding to what came across as a minimization of the IRA and ended up doing what I was accusing the person I was replying to of doing.

I'll update the original comment if HN still allows it.

[mhoad]

I tried writing a reply to this but its kind of hard to talk about the nuance here around intent etc when at the end of the day dead kids are dead kids. I don’t think anyone rightly gives a damn about if that was the intent or not and I’m certainly not here to try and justify it. The entire thing is completely unacceptable in every sense of the word.

Regarding that second link though, I thought that was INLA which were a totally different group?