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"Omagh Massacre: Loyalists Signal Their Ceasefire is Secure"

Newspaper article

By: John Mullin and Ewen MacAskill

Date: August 17, 1998

Source: "Omagh Massacre: Loyalists Signal Their Ceasefire is Secure," as published by the Guardian Unlimited (London).

About the Author: Ewen MacAskill serves as the Guardian's chief political correspondent and diplomatic editor. John Mullin, the executive news editor of The Independent was a Guardian staff reporter in 1998.

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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) formed in 1916 to free Ireland from long-time British rule. Upon the division of Ireland in 1922, the IRA opposed the creation of...