Martin McGuiness on Northern Ireland

Martin McGuiness  speaking at the Hudson Union Society in December 2012, at 2 mins 57 secs:

We believe that there should be established an independent international truth tribunal. Gerry Adams and I have said publicly that we would both be prepared to attend it. The greatest opposition to the establishment of such a tribunal comes from the British government. And you have to ask yourself, "Why?" Of course the answer is very, very clear. Despite the conversations we've had, .... Gerry Adams and I used to travel over to London every now and then, on a Saturday. The media wouldn't even know we were going. And we would travel down to Chequers, and we would spend five or six hours in Chequers, with Tony Blair and Jonathan Powell, and Tony Blair freely admitted during the course of those conversations, that, particularly during the time of the Thatcher regime, that the British Army and Military were involved in all sorts of activities that he totally and absolutely disapproved of, ... but, you know, I can sit here tonight and talk about all of the different things the British Army were involved in, and somebody in the audience can stand up and say all of the different things the IRA were involved in, .... we need to find a way to have those conversations.

McGuiness is explaining why the British Government is the greatest obstacle to setting up an independent, international truth tribunal. And the reason he gives in the foregoing quote is because the British Prime Minister would be incriminated by the findings of such a tribunal. See Denis Donaldson and the "Brexit Backstop" and Denis Donaldson Was Betrayed By Everyone Who Knew Him.

The media in the UK and abroad are also implicated in the cover-up.

This is from the description of this video:

Around 1980, the IRA changed its strategy and started to focus on intelligence. In doing this, they developed sophisticated technology for surveillance and had the ability to intercept British Army surveillance as well.

As a result the British Army and Military Intelligence started to use illegal operations to carry out attacks that could be attributed to Republicans and IRA dissidents, which could be used as excuses for attacks on IRA intelligence operatives who were gathering damning evidence against them, from all over the world. See Death on the Rock.

This interview with Alison Cahn, a researcher who worked for months on the programme, is very revealing

Three months ago, author and former Member of Parliament Chris Mullin laughably claimed (at 10 mins 52 secs) that he thought MI5 had been "cleaned up" over the past few years. Well, if by "cleaned up", he meant that all the dirt had been swept under the rug and everyone concerned had been assured that it would all be quietly forgotten about, ... then, he's probably right.

See Seán Murray on British Military Intelligence (MI5) Counter-Insurgency Tactics:

"What they wanted to do was to start something so serious that it would spill into civil war, ..." so they tried to contract a gang to go into a Catholic primary school and kill all the children and teachers. Now the issue is whether these crimes should be quietly forgotten, or not. 

"This week the UK Parliament debated whether or not to give British Soldiers immunity against prosecution for  crimes in Northern Ireland, ..."

Here's the trailer for Unquiet Graves:

British intelligence could have prevented the 1998 Omagh Bombing by the Real IRA, but intercepts by GCHQ were not passed on to to the detectives investigating the case.

Now, if a junior member of staff at GCHQ, with no great wealth and an immigrant husband who has no right of permanent abode in the UK, can call out an illegal war, then what sort of a defence will a Prime Minister and a Foreign Secretary in Her Majesty's Government have against the charge they knowingly ignored and even assisted in covering-up illegal activities engaged in by British forces in collusion with foreign intelligence agencies? See Weird Stuff Going on With the British Press.